Marines See Atom Blast in Nevada, Yucca Flat, Nevada

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w.W. fee 10?.52 EWSREEL RELEASE NO. 107-52 6 May 1952 FOOTAGEE Approx. 150 ft. X (A) TO: MGM News of the Day MARINES SEE ATOM BLAST IN NEVADA! (official Marine Corps footage released by Department of Defense) Little more than a week after Army troops were tested by an A-bomb on Yucca Flat -- the Atomic Energy Commission's Proving Ground in Nevada -- another A-bomb is exploded as two entrenched battalions of Marine watch from foxholes in the same area. This tactical A-bomb was exploded at 2,000 feet above ground zero. These first official films show the actual explosion, one of the brightest and most spectacular to date. SEQUENCES SHOW: (1) Marines in foxholes as H-hour approaches 2) Marines awaiting explosion (3) Complete explosion as filmed from News Nob, showing dust cloud, fireball, and formation of mushroom cloud (4) Marines leaving foxholes after blast to view nuclear cloud rising above Nevada desert (5) Marines advancing to efge of foxhole area - waiting "all clear signal" to close into ground zero. ARMED FORCES DAY May 17, 1952

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Filmed News Releases