Training of United States soldiers in Europe. An officer discusses a wall map with other officers and briefs them on strategies and plans. An officer smokes a cigarette. An airplane parked on an airfield. Paratroopers board the plane. The plane in flight. Interior of the plane shows paratroopers sitting and discussing. An aerial view of a snow covered area. The paratroopers descend with the help of their parachutes. They wear warm clothes and advance on the snow covered area. The troops head for a bridge. They hold their skies in hands and advance on snow. Mountains in the foreground. The troops climb a mountain. A building in the foreground.
Training of the United States soldiers in Europe during the Cold War. The American soldiers train for a demolition mission as they advance in a snow covered area. A bridge on a river in the foreground. A train passes on the bridge. A soldier watches through binoculars. Another soldier loads his rifle. The soldiers hiding from the enemy come near the bridge. A security guard walks on the bridge. A soldier fires a gun. The guard comes down a hill to watch the enemy. The soldiers in the training mission fix dynamite on rails and other places on the bridge. A soldier watches through binoculars. They give the signal, a soldier detonates the TNT, and the bridge explodes. The "enemy" stand outside a house and begin to pursue. The groups have German Shepherd dogs, snowshoes, and skis as they leave the scene and are pursued by the "enemy." The skiers advance on the snow.
Animated map of Bikini Atoll area shows islands of Bikini, Ailinginae, Rongelap, and Rongerik. The predicted fallout radiation strength is posted for each area of the map with accumulated radiation doses to H+50 noted. The decreasing dose from 3000 to 1300 and then 800 is shown. A dotted line demonstrates path of fallout radiation over the Bikini Atoll area. Next, a map of the United States USA Eastern seaboard is shown with Washington D.C. as the origin of the atom bomb explosion and the fallout cloud extending to New York City.
Graphic of Bikini Atoll nuclear explosion mushroom cloud with markings indicating 30,000 feet on cloud with +97 of fallout above that point. Topographical display shows fallout pattern from blast.
Totsk nuclear exercise (codename “Snowball”) undertaken by the Soviet Army in Orenburg, Soviet Union during the Cold War. An immense mushroom cloud forms after a 40-kiloton (170 TJ) RDS-4 atomic bomb detonates 1,150 ft. (350 meters) above the Totskoye range.
Atomics International engineers working on test and development work on reactor components during the construction of the Sodium Reactor Experiment nuclear power plant at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California, United States. A scientist studies the weight of a metal tube. Scientists study mockup fuel elements irradiated in the thermal column of a research reactor. A hydraulic loop was used to simulate sodium flow conditions on top of a tower. Scientist inserts a hydraulic loop. Sodium flowing as seen from the hydraulic loop experiment. Full scale mockup of the fuel handling system was checked mechanically. A prototype coolant pump being studied using a temperature sodium loop. A scientist pushes some buttons of a machine. Machine gauge measures temperature in Fahrenheit. A scientist in protective suit turns a wheel. Scientists lower heavy tube.