Declassified · 1945–1962

The films of the atomic age, given a home.

Between 1945 and 1962 the United States detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the open air and filmed nearly all of it. The footage has sat on the Internet Archive for twenty years. This is a way to actually look at it.

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days since the last U.S. atmospheric nuclear test · Nov 4, 1962

Largest test in the archive

15 Mt

Operation Castle — about 1,000 Hiroshima bombs in a single detonation.

By the numbers

Operations

Films

Documented tests

155

Span

1945–1962

Total IA views

1,244,481

Operations

Trinity 1945 Operation Crossroads 1946 Operation Sandstone 1948 Operation Ranger 1951 Operation Greenhouse 1951 Operation Buster-Jangle 1951 Operation Tumbler-Snapper 1952 Operation Ivy 1952 Operation Upshot-Knothole 1953 Operation Castle 1954 Operation Teapot 1955 Operation Wigwam 1955 Operation Redwing 1956 Operation Hardtack 1958 Operation Argus 1958 Operation Dominic 1962