Department of Energy Historical Test Films

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The Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, have 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.

Throughout the nuclear era, the various agencies of the Federal Government documented their activities on celluloid film. The films were used for various purposes including providing information to the public, training, and for analysis of the effects of the weapons tests. Many of these films have been lost or destroyed. Others have been stored under conditions less than ideal for preservation. The DOE’s Albuquerque Operations Office is currently engaged in transferring these old, deteriorating films, many of which are marked as classified, to digital data (Betacam) and stored on videotapes to capture the information before it is lost.

The Historical Nuclear Weapons Test films which have been declassified can be ordered from the Nuclear Testing Archive using this order form

http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/forms/testfilm.htm

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800000 Nuclear Testing Review - ABLE
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - BAKER
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - DOMINIC
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - EPILOG
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - HARDTACK
800000 INTRODUCTION - Nuclear Film Declassification Project
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - ORANGE
800000 Nuclear Testing Review - Troop Involvement
800001 Trinity Shot 1945
800002 Project Crossroads - Able Shot 1946
800002 Project Crossroads - Baker Shot 1946
800003/08 Operation Sandstone 1948
800009 Operation Greenhouse - Booster Event 1951
800009 Operation Greenhouse 1951
800010 Operation Ranger and Operation Buster/Jangle 1951
800011 Operation Tumbler-Snapper 1952
800012 Operation Ivy - Part 1 Mike Phase 1952
800012 Operation Ivy - Part 2 King Phase 1952
800013 Operation Castle 1954
800014 Damage and Destruction No Date Given
800015 Operation Upshot-Knothole 1953
800016 Operation Upshot-Knothole, Project 5.2 1953
800017 Operation Teapot - Military Effects Studies 1954
800018 Operation Wigwam - Commander's Report 1955
800019 Operation Redwing 1956
800020 Operation Redwing - Military Effects 1956
800021 Operation Plumbbob 1957
800022 Operation Plumbbob - Military Effects Studies 1957
800023 Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies Part 1 1958
800024 Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies Part 2 1958
800025 Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies Part 3 1958
800025 Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies Part 3 (cont.) 1958
800026 Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies Part 4 1958
800027 Operation Argus - Report to Chief, AFSWP to ARPA 1958
800028 Operation Nougat and Gnome 1961
800029 Operation Dominic Fireballs - Pacific Testing 1962
800030 Project Sedan - Part 1 1962
800030 Project Sedan - Part 2 1962
800030 Project Sedan - Part 3 1962
800030 Project Sedan - Part 4 1962
800030 Project Sedan - Part 5 1962
800031 SADM Delivery by Parachutist/Swimmer
800032 MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report 1962
800033 Operation Doorstep and Operation Cue 1953
800034 Project Gnome (Posttest) 1961
800034 Project Gnome (Pretest) 1961
800035 Excavating with Nuclear Explosives and Plowshare 1968
800036 Project Rulison 1969
800037 The Warm Coat 1968
800038 The Amchitka Program 1970
800039 Project Long Shot 1965
800040 The Milrow Test 1969
800041 Project Cannikin Review 1971
800042 Atomic Blasts, Operations Greenhouse through Upshot-Knothole 1951-53
800043 Pacific Nuclear Tests 1962
800044 ASROC Weapons System - Introduction 1963
800045 Naval Atomic Weapons Vulnerability Program Late 1950's
800046 Swordfish, Sailor Hat (Conventional Test), ASROC, SUBROC
800047 Delivery of Atomic Weapons by Light Carrier Aircraft
800048 Nuclear Effects at Sea 1976
800049 Talos Missile Handling, Cruiser Installation
800050 Torpedo MK 45 (Nuclear) Systems 1962
800051 United States Air Force Atomic Bomb Delivery Aircraft 1950-57
800052 Atomic Guided Missiles 1955
800053 Meeting the Terrorist Threat 1970's
800054 Hybla Fair 1974
800055 Let's Face It
800056 Enewetak Cleanup
800057 Excerpts from Operation Hardtack 1958
800058 Mark 43 and Mark 57 Weapons - Shipboard 1963
800059 TF9 3370, Technical Proficiency Inspection 1963
800060 Exercise Desert Rock 1951
800061 Operation Dominic Nuclear Tests 1962
800062 Starfish Prime Test Interim and Fishbowl Auroral Sequences 1962
800062 Dominic on Fishbowl Phenomenon and Fishbowl XR Summary 1962
800063 Operation Fishbowl - High-Altitude Weapons Effects 1962
800064 Operation Dominic Christmas Island & Operation Dominic Scientific 1962
800065 Operation Dominic Johnston Island 1962
800066 High-Altitude Nuclear Weapon Effects Part One 1963
800067 High-Altitude Nuclear Weapon Effects Part Two 1963
800068 Atomic Weapons Orientation Part One 1961
800068 Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Two 1965
800069 Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Three 1961
800069 Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Four 1961
800070 Atomic Weapons Orientation Part Five and Part Six
800071 Tonopah Test Range: An Outdoor Laboratory Facility 1964
800072 Developing and Producing the B-61 1970's