U.S. Army Tactical nuclear weapons and preparations for Atomic Exercise Desert Rock VI at the Atomic Energy Commission Nevada ...
Episode of "The Big Picture" A U.S. Army TV program for the military and the public. Army cameraman seen recording Nike missile launch. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud in the distance. Army troops carried to a field by Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. U.S. infantry climb a hill firing their rifles. U.S. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen narrates the film.He speaks about tests of tactical atomic weapons ("Desert Rock 6") held isolated area of Nevada at Camp Desert Rock. Celebrating victory in Europe, during World War 2, American troops parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, with the Arch of Triumph behind them. Happy Parisians watch them parade.. War scenes in Hiroshima, Japan: Actual footage of explosion and mushroom cloud rising after atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Barren land on the ground in Hiroshima after the blast. B-29 bombers in flight. Atomic bomb explodes in testing at the Pacific Proving Grounds. Atomic artillery gun M65, also called the Atomic Cannon or Atomic Annie, fires and creates nuclear explosion in the distance. Viking missile launch. U.S. infantry on parade. Headquarters sign at U.S. Army atomic experiment station at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, displaying 6-pointed star with "A" in center.. More views of atomic bomb tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds. U.S. infantrymen witness a non-nuclear explosion. Buses carry troops along a road past a sign warning of radiation hazard. Army captain, instructor, tells the soldiers they are here to participate in an atomic maneuver. Troops outdoors are told they can live through an atomic attack by taking common precautions. Maps showing States where participating soldiers are normally stationed. Officers planning the exercise with a large chart of the test area. View of simulated enemy advance to the point where U.S. forces engage them (at ground zero area) in the test area. Army engineers begin surveying the test area. View of the sandy area at ground zero with concentric circles of asphalt forming a target on its surface. Signal men lay cables from a jeep to facilitate communications. A soldier operates a mechanical ditch digger to prepare trenches for troops. Troops who are part of the exercise use shovels and sandbags to reinforce their trenches and foxholes. Closeup of a foxhole.
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