A film based on the Plum Island Animal Disease Center( PIADC ) in Long Island, New York which is dedicated to study of foreign animal diseases. Removal of animal virus in a laboratory shows personnel in special rubber clothing inside an animal isolation unit. The rubber is disinfected with lie solution. Caustic solution in rinsed off in a shower. Clothing is cleaned using a brush. A man cleans the room with the lie solution. Sewage passed through welded lines to sewage decontamination building. Three holding tanks receive sewage. Sewage is heated to sterilizing temperature and discharged outside the laboratory. An officer inside research buildings looks at a light blinking on a central trouble panel. A technician takes a look at the diagram of the layout of the building and instructs over a telephone. A technician approaches an overheated motor. He inspects equipment of air control system of the laboratory. Technicians work on machines in a machine shop. A patient being treated in a first aid room. Service area for cleaning and sterilization of glassware and a laundry in the research building. A man cleans his nasal and throat passages, scrubs his hands and takes a shower. Employees board a bus. A guard looks through binoculars.
Wernher Von Braun, a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect, gives a recorded lecture in German on space launch vehicles. On his table are models such as the model of the Juno II space launch vehicle. In his lecture, Dr. Wernher Von Braun discusses the facets of space flight, such as the capabilities of the Juno II and how to achieve escape velocity in launching. After Dr. Wernher Von Braun ends his lecture, a diagram depicting the Juno II launch (written in English) is revealed. A blackboard with notes, written in English, about launching velocity can be seen.
Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a doughnut-shaped cloud as it ascends.
Atomic explosion during nuclear weapons test in Nevada testing ground. In a rugged desert, from a distance, a smoke forms into a small mushroom-shaped cloud before dispersing in the sky.
Atomic explosion during tactical nuclear weapons test in Nevada testing ground during the Cold War. An atomic bomb explodes near the Yucca mountain in Nevada, near the border with California. Heavy dark gray smoke cloud forms from the atomic explosion.
Atomic explosion during tactical nuclear weapons test in Nevada during the Cold War. Smoke forms into a hot, bright mushroom cloud with Joshua tree in foreground. As it ascends higher, the mushroom cloud becomes thicker and gray.