Men assemble test panels into easels set up in the desert. Man nails panel into place with hammer and nails. View of various combustible building insulation types in test frames. Test frame on sand bags and mounted on timbers. Man pulls a cover from some insulation batting. Atomic bomb flash hits test materials and building. Shock wave hits test frames. Daylight shows various levels of char from atomic bomb flash on test materials. Wide shot shows damaged test building and charred door opening with damaged window.
Animated graphic compares the height of burst of an atomic bomb blast versus distance from the blast. Various comparisons of burst height are shown against several different targets, including a tank, a hand, a standing soldier, and a soldier in a trench.
Animation demonstrates radiation emanating from an atomic bomb explosion and subsequent mushroom cloud. Bomb cloud alone in the sky is shown with radiation. Initial burst before cloud shown with great radiation and reflection back from ground.
Animation shows atomic explosion mushroom cloud with fallout and then cloud moving with fallout spreading through terrain. More animation shows fallout dispersion depending upon low, middle, high, and average wind conditions.
Aerial view of a small tactical nuclear weapons in the desert. Atomic bomb explosion cloud elongates to cover a wide area of view.
Wide shot of desert as a small tactical nuclear explosion blasts dust into the sky during a test by the United States. Subsequent shot shows a wide area covered with dust cloud. Aerial view later of large dust cloud from atomic bomb explosion.