People’s Republic of China Premier Zhou Enlai announces the news of China's first successful nuclear test. People cheer. Preparations for China's second atomic test is done. Men prepare trucks and equipment. Combat team briefed. Troops chant communist slogans. Troops and their horses wear protective clothing before entering the radioactive zone. Troops take cover at a safe distance before the blast and cover their eyes with protective glasses. Nuclear explosion at the horizon. Mushroom cloud rises high in the air. The blast wave destroys everything in its path. Tanks and troops enter the radioactive zone. Cavalry advances on ground. Troops move behind tanks. English translation narration overlays Chinese narrator in background.
Opening scene shows a Navy anti-submarine warfare SH-3A helicopter, of ASM Squadron HS-11, from Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 52 (CVSG-52) on the Carrier USS Wasp (CVS-18). It is filmed from another nearby helicopter as it executes a "dippiing sonar" procedure during fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea. .It is seen lowering an ASW tranducer, into the water by means of a cable. The helicopter remains in a hover throughout the sequence, with the sonor buoy deployed.
United States NASA spacecraft Gemini IV is launched into orbit from LC-19 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White aloft for White's famous space walk, or Extra-Vehicular Activity 'EVA' Gemini IV in space and White tied to a tether as he walks in space. Shots of McDivitt in capsule.
Leaflets drop over a village in the Dominican Republic. A United States Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft in flight over the village. People work in fields in front of a building. The aircraft drops leaflets over the building. People holding leaflets walk.
A film 'Biochemical Research Laboratory' about research activities in the Biochemical Research Section of the Air Force Armament Test Equipment laboratory center in the United States. A chemist performs chemical analysis on soil samples in support of the vegetable growth control project. A test performed on radioactive tracer method. A scientist weighs on a chemical balance. A radioactive sample being placed in a Geiger tube which transmits electrical impulses to a super scaler counter to determine the radioactivity of the sample. A chemist holds a flask under a burette as chemical pours in it while performing a test.
Operations of the Hurricane Hunters in the Caribbean. Interior of a United States Air Force Lockheed WC-130 Hercules aircraft in flight. A dropsonde operator speaking into a microphone. A pilot, a co-pilot and an engineer in the cockpit of the airplane.
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