U.S. Military Declassifies 62 Nuclear Explosion Videos



Business Insider: Newly declassified videos of Cold War atomic blasts reveal the terrifying power of nuclear weapons

* The US government has uploaded 62 newly declassified nuclear-explosion videos to YouTube.
* The footage is a small share of the 10,000 Cold War-era films that archivists and physicists are trying to rescue.
* Re-analysis of the old movies will help the military modernize its nuclear weapons stockpile — and maybe prevent their use.

Nuclear weapons researchers and archivists working for the US government have declassified 62 never-before-seen films of atomic explosions .

The new batch of videos joins 63 other clips of Cold War-era test-blasts, bringing the total to 125 declassified films now available to watch on YouTube. (We've embedded the playlist at the end of this story.)

Hundreds more of these decaying films could reach the internet as high-definition videos in the coming months as the team tracks the videos down in warehouses, digitally scans them, and re-analyzes them for crucial data. Then, if they don't reveal any secrets that North Korea or other adversaries might not have, they release the videos on YouTube.

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Update #1: Watch: Nuclear Missile Tests in Cold War Seen in Newly Declassified Videos -- Newsweek
Update #2: Mushroom Clouds of Doom: New US Cold War Nuclear Test Footage Released (VIDEO) -- Sputnik International

WNU Editor: Most of these new videos can be seen at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory YOuTube's channel. The link is here.

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