French B-26 bombers in Indochina. Aircraft lined up with running engines. They take off and fly in formation. Aerial views of terrain. Views from cockpit. Buildings, mountains and forest. The aircraft fly over the clouds. An aerial view of a river and a field.
French gunner looks out from one of a long line of Douglas A-26 bombers flown by French Air Force in Indochina, as they taxi for takeoff. Very low altitude views from A-26 showing a church and other substantial building. A pilot at the controls in cockpit. Aircraft taxi on an airstrip. 'BC-579' written on an aircraft. An aerial view of the land. One aircraft drops bombs. The bombers in flight. Three bombers in formation flight. Flight of three French fighter aircraft.
A reporter interviews Nobelist Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, on the occasion of his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway states that he would not be able to go to Sweden on advice of his doctor. He also talks about his new book on Africa, its people, animals and the changes that have taken place there.
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.