Nuclear Test Film - Operation Upshot-Knothole
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 19/05/2010

Nuclear Test Film - Operation Upshot-Knothole - Department of Energy 1953 - TF 0800015 - The Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, declassified a series of historical films on the nuclear weapons program. They were converted to videotape format to help preserve the films and to facilitate the declassification and release process. These films document the history of the development of nuclear weapons, starting with the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in southeastern New Mexico in July 1945.