United States conducts nuclear test shot "Zuni" as part of Operation Redwing nuclear tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds. Bright flash appears due to the Zuni shot bomb blast, the first ever of a three-stage thermonuclear design. Huge fireball boils upward into the sky. Spots of fire in sky as darkness spreads. Zuni was a 3.5 Megaton Hydrogen bomb with 85% of its yield from fusion. This was a companion test to the "dirty" (87% fission) Tewa shot using the same bomb design.
Full-scale thermonuclear test of ultracold liquid deuterium, codenamed Ivy MIKE at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok). (Left to right) Chief engineering and firing commander, Stan Burris -- later the leader of the Strategic Ballistic Missile development, including Polaris and later editions; retired as CEO of Rockwell Aerospace -- military firing and security commander, Colonel Richard Lunger, and ultracold refrigeration engineering commander for thermonuclear liquid fuel state monitoring, Robert Gibney. The intense nuclear radiation ignited the atmosphere around the device, creating a fireball 4.2 miles across. A remote firing control was created, using a televison tower beam signal to safely trigger the detonation from the USS Estes, approximately 35 miles south/southeast of the detonation. White hot device remnant specks are visible throughout the surface of the fireball. Shockwave from Operation Ivy Mike explosion is seen spreading across the water, then a white mushroom cloud spreading above. View of crew on ship deck observing blast. Device yield: 10.4 megatons.
Nuclear bomb test being conducted at Bikini Atoll, Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, by the United States military. Ships at sea. Shock wave spreads rapidly due to a nuclear blast. Mushroom cloud hangs over the water, surrounded by grey clouds. Tons of water being thrown back down on the surface as white light obscures the area. Bird flies in the foreground.
United States conducts nuclear tests at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada. Aerial view of ground 'O' on the desert floor. Area obscured by the brightness of the flash which dissipates immediately. Fireball rises up from the desert floor. Dust cloud on the desert floor. Fireball boils skyward churning its way upwards casting a shadow off to the right.
United States conducts nuclear tests at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada. Water over a part of desert. A blast goes off in the background. Fireball blows up. Darkness spreads.
United States conducts nuclear test at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada, during Operation Plumbbob. Desert floor, mountains in the background. Area obscured by the brightness as shot Owens blast goes off in the background. Circular ring of smoke covers the ground area. The fireball and smoke churns upward. The top part of the mushroom cloud rise slowly and moves outward. Cloud dissipates from the blast, it mingles in with natural clouds.
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