United States aircraft strike at North Vietnamese targets in south Vietnam. Aerial view of the target area. Field, trees and small group of buildings among trees at curve of a small canal. Explosion goes off near buildings. U.S. A-1H aircraft moving in to attack north Vietnamese. It flies over a river. Bomb explodes near a hut.
United States conducts air strike on targets in south Vietnam during Vietnam War. Small boats at rivers edge in area of pier. Huge explosion goes off at river edge of pier and small boats appear to be a direct hit. Another huge explosion goes off in an area of small boats along river's edge. Bomb crater below at river's edge, smoke rises from the river. Out over water and some of the peninsula sticking into water. A bomb explodes along the edge of a canal. A-1H in flight. Fighting Air Command's (FAC) type aircraft pulling up in background, flying very low, bomb heads towards shoreline of canal and explodes. A-1H in flight in the background. Bomb being released from the aircraft and hits shoreline of the canal resulting in an explosion. A-1H in flight. Napalm explodes along the shoreline resulting in fire. A-1H in flight over target area.
United States conducts nuclear tests at Nevada test site in Nye County, Nevada. Looking down over ground 'O'. Area obscured by brightness of white light, it dissipates. Fireball seen after the atomic blast. Mushroom cloud moves straight up from the 'O' zone with its narrow trunk. Cloud billows up on top. Top section of mushroom cloud. Trunk of cloud, and top with red appearance. Grey curling smoke below the cloud. Thin mushroom cloud with red smoke ring like a halo, hovers above the long neck of smoke. Red smoke ring hovers above the blast area.
Aerial view of shot Able, the first test of the United States Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll. Bright flash followed by rising mushroom cloud after bomb explodes. Blast wave seen overtaking unmanned test ships in the ocean.
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.
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.
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