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<p><b>**EDITORIAL AND PKG SCRIPT PROVIDED BY KSNV ON 7/21/23**</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><pi><b>This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.</b></pi></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Thursday</p>\n<p>Las Vegas</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:05-:12</p>\n<p>Brett Forrest</p>\n<p>Reporting</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:14-:22</p>\n<p>J. Robert Oppenheimer</p>\n<p>Father of the atomic bomb</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:29-:35</p>\n<p>Rob McCoy</p>\n<p>CEO, Atomic Museum</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:47-1:57</p>\n<p>Dr. Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford</p>\n<p>Technical Writer, Nevada National Security Site</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>WITH THE RELEASE OF THE FILM "OPPENHEIMER" THIS WEEKEND, THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE MAN WHO DEVELOPED THE ATOMIC BOMB IS REFLECTING ON HIS LEGACY.</p>\n<p>BRETT FORREST REPORTS.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Forrest: "The atomic bomb was developed in New Mexico with the Manhattan Project led by J. Robert Oppenheimer but Nevada also plays an important, controversial and lasting legacy when it comes to the atomic age."</p>\n<p>J. Robert Oppenheimer: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."</p>\n<p>McCoy: "After the Manhattan Project and the Trinity explosion and World War Two, the federal government started looking for a wide swath of land, where they could continue to do atomic testing, because the world had changed."</p>\n<p>PRESIDENT TRUMAN APPROVED THE NEVADA TEST SITE IN DECEMBER 1950.</p>\n<p>A MONTH LATER, THE FIRST ATOM BOMB WAS DETONATED IN THE DESERT.</p>\n<p>OVER 900 NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE TESTED IN NEVADA, BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND, FOR THE NEXT FORTY YEARS</p>\n<p>THE NUCLEAR FALLOUT FROM THESE TESTS LED TO HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.</p>\n<p>TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOWNWINDER COMPENSATION CLAIMS HAVE BEEN FILED AND APPROVED OVER THE YEARS.</p>\n<p>McCoy: "And there are multiple sides to the atomic story and part of that is fallout from above-ground testing."</p>\n<p>THE TEST SITE IS JUST 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS VEGAS</p>\n<p>THE CASINOS WERE CONCERNED THE TESTING WOULD AFFECT GAMBLING OPERATIONS</p>\n<p>BUT THE MUSHROOM CLOUDS SOON BECAME AN ATTRACTION</p>\n<p>McCoy: "Las Vegas could sell anything. Wait, we can turn this into a tourism event. We'll have viewing parties from the hotel from the roof of the hotel. We'll have Miss Atomic Bomb contests and so Las Vegas has always been good at selling the sizzle and boy, did they sell the sizzle with atomic testing."</p>\n<p>OPPENHEIMER'S GRANDDAUGHTER NOW LIVES IN BOULDER CITY.</p>\n<p>SHE WORKS AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE AS A TECHNICAL WRITER, VIEWING HER GRANDFATHER AS A PATRIOT</p>\n<p>Dorothy Oppenheimer: "I see it as something that was necessary at the time and that we are still living with as a legacy today because nuclear weapons are still around and still of concern."</p>\n<p>SAYING HIS LEGACY SHOULD BE REMEMBERED AS HEROIC AND HE SHOULD NOT BE VILLAINIZED.</p>\n<p>Dorothy Oppenheimer: "When people bring up that we have this strong history of testing, both above ground and underground and that that is related to atomic energy. But it's not Robert Oppenheimer's fault that the government chose to test bombs in Nevada."</p>\n<p>WHAT OF THE SITE NOW, 30 YEARS AFTER THE LAST BOMB WAS TESTED?</p>\n<p>Forrest: "It's 2023. What is happening at the Nevada Test Site these days?"</p>\n<p>McCoy: "Well, this is actually the part of the museum where we talk about this and it's the bomb without the boom and that's what's currently going on at the Nevada National Security site and that is making sure that this country's nuclear stockpile is still viable, God forbid, we should ever have to use it and so we're able to test that equipment without doing any type of nuclear explosion."</p>\n<p>FROM LAS VEGAS, I'M BRETT FORREST, NEWS 3.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END----------</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS NEVADA ROBERT OPPENHEIMER GRANDDAUGHTER FILM ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY ATOMIC BOMB</p>\n<p></p>

THIS IS A COMPLETE B-ROLL AND FILE SELECTION OF EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE 1950’S ATOMIC BOMB SCARE.

The American B-29 'Enola Gay' drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of civilians and marking the beginning of the end of war with Japan. Co-production with the BBC.<br/><br/>Beginning to 00:44 from Film ID 2733.01<br/>00:44 to 01:25 from Film ID Unknown<br/>01:25 to end from Film ID 2733.01

View of a desert, likely in Nevada. An atomic bomb detonates. A mushroom-like cloud from pillar of smoke forms from bomb site. The mushroom-cloud ascends to the sky. Location: United States USA. Date: 1951.

b&w newsreel part 1 - sound - US Army film about atomic testing - rocket launches, atomic blast - soldiers jump from helicopters - move up hill with weapons - on camera narrator intro to film - soldiers march in Paris - 1945, Hiroshima atom bomb - devastation - B-52 flies - A-Bomb explosion - atomic artillery fires - missile takes off - nuclear weapon

CS VO PETER JENNINGS ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) RELEASING DECLASSIFIED OLD FILM CLEARLY SHOWING UNPROTECTED SOLDIERS DURING ATOMIC BOMB DETONATIONS

SPACE ALIENS, 1950S COLD WAR PROPAGANDA FILMS, ATOMIC BOMB SCARE FILMS, RADIOACTIVITY, NUCLEAR ATTACK SITUATIONS, WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ATOMIC ATTACK, TESTING ANTI RADAR AIRCRAFT, TESTING FLYING SAUCER TYPE AIRCRAFT

Yours Is The Land - TFA-118D A film about conservation of the earth made in 1949 by the Conservation Foundation and the New York Zoological Society global warming, glacier, glaciers, snow, ice, melting, environment, Zoom in on rotating earth, farm with waving grass in wind, eroded field, hillside with rutted ground, ruts, erosion, waves rolling into beach, snowed covered mountains reflected in lake, glacier, snow melting in stream, crashing waves, billowing clouds, snow covered mountain peaks, rock and rubble covered hillside, glacier grinding rock down valley. ice covered by ground up rock at foot of glacier, glacial streams washing rock and dirt, tiny lichen, glacial lake, downstream, clear brook, sand beds, silt, acid dissolves minerals, growing lichen time lapse, soil is produced, plants grow, organic matter is created to support small tree, rock into dirt, time lapse plant growing, sprouting bean, chlorophyll, insects convert plants into soil, worms, cliff showing topsoil layers, water lily on pond, pickerel weed, cypress trees, climax species in forest, nature's plan, new life depends on death of old, steel head trout spawning upstream, up waterfall, plow plowing field, forests, waterfalls, birds, rabbits, cow chewing, moose eating plants, owl antelope in mountains, balance of nature, map of world, painting of cavemen, dawn of modern civilization, farm workers with hoes, man behind horse drawn plow, farm machinery, harvester, dredge, tractor, combine, axe chopping tree, large tree falling in forest, trees falling, burning clearing, mining stork flying, lake and mountains, smoke belching factory, forest fire,devastation, erosion, bare earth, water spout, tornado, wind, dry dusty land, dust storm, flood, wind blowing dirt, eroded fields, camels, cow skeleton, desert, forest, tree stumps, polluted streams, graph showing productive parts of earth, tractor pulling farm machine, barren land, men in field talking and pointing, what does conservation mean, tractor with hay baling machine, topsoil eroded, chain of life, tree falling, stumps, picturesque farm, country church, large refinery, airplane over large city, atomic bomb blast, cracked soil, two girls getting mail from rural mailbox, haystacks, forest fire devastation, floods, destruction of the earth, two girls walk down country lane. text of conservation pledge.

Just released films show unusual behind-the-scenes close-ups of secret research in the last series of A-bomb tests in Nevada. Spectacular shots of an actual atomic bombing run--and a rare close-up of the "atomic mushroom" cloud.

First Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1, 1949, high-speed footage. RDS-1 was used in the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test. It was exploded on 29 August 1949 at Semipalatinsk, in Soviet Kazakhstan. The RDS-1 explosion yielded the equivalent energy of 22 kilotons of TNT, similar to the American Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. The USSR had received extensive intelligence on the design of the Fat Man bomb during World War II.

A film titled 'Victory' about the first ever atomic bomb test in New Mexico, United States. Exteriors of some of the secure manufacturing and factory buildings that were part of the Manhattan Project production efforts. Military guards watch over the factory. View of the desert in New Mexico. Cactus in the desert. Views of the nighttime first atomic bomb test explosion in history, known as the Trinity test, seen from different distances and camera positions. Smoke cloud rises up from the first ever atomic bomb explosion. (World War II period). Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA. Date: July 16, 1945.

China's first nuclear weapon test, 1964. This test took place on 16 October 1964 at the Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang, north-eastern China. Numbered 596 in lists of nuclear tests, it was a uranium fission device with a yield of 22 kilotons. This successful test meant that China became the world's fifth nuclear power.

00:00:07:29 BARS. VS AMERICAN TOURISTS WATCH A FILM PRESENTATION AT THE PEACE MEMORIAL PARK IN HIROSHIMA. THE FILM SHOWS ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT. VS THE AMERICAN GROUP TOURS THE PARK. A GUIDE EXPLAINS VARIOUS MONUMENTS. CUS INTVS/W LOU PERRY, GEORGE CUNNING, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN TOUR GROUP. THEY DESCRIBE HOW THEY FELT WHEN THE A-BOMB WAS DROPPED. THEY COMMENT ON THE ONGOING ARMS RACE. BARS. CI: ATROCITIES: HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMBING (ABOUT). BUILDINGS: MEMORIALS. PERSONALITIES: PERRY, LOU. PERSONALITIES: CUNNING, GEORGE.

Location: United States of America / USA <br/> <br/>Film celebrating 20 years of Atomic power. <br/> <br/>Title reads, "Atomic Age Born 20 Years Ago". GV. Night shot of the White House MS. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg presents President John F. Kennedy with cube of uranium. CU. Uranium tube. <br/> <br/>VS. of an exhibition - Atom fair - of peaceful uses of atomic energy. Various machines equipped for handling atomic material. <br/> <br/>LS. Underground nuclear explosion in the Nevada Desert. The surface of the ground swells up until it finally bursts and the gasses and sand breaks through. Aerial shot of the explosion area showing large crater left from the explosion. <br/> <br/>LS. Another underground explosion.

THIS IS A COMPLETE B-ROLL AND FILE SELECTION OF EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE 1950’S ATOMIC BOMB SCARE

WARNING - FILM ELEMENT NOT AVAILABLE!!! - a-bomb nuclear atomic explosion orange sky w/ mushroom cloud forming close shots on buildings collapsing back to aerial shot of mushroom cloud - fades to black

A couple reads a booklet entitled, "Survival Guide Under Atomic Attack." Note Transferred to Apple Pro Res 422 HQ. Pillarbox. Available in all display formats.

Atomic Bomb Blast Effects

01:26 Excerpt from ""Duck and Cover,"" an educational film advising how to react to an atomic bomb blast. 03:41 ""Back to Normal"" by Jonathan Letchinger. Shot in San Francisco about a week after the devastating earthquake that occurred on October 17, 1989, this video chronicles San Francisco's reactions to the quake. Some are angry, others still in shock. 11:55 ""Alternatives Festival."" A short interview with Mark Johnson, founder of Alternatives Festival, a gathering of punk rock musicians in Washington D.C. that formed to help young people work for change in society. 14:22 ""We Have The Force"" by Youth Force '88 and Branda Miller. A short documentary about an inner city youth group that organized an effort called ""Take Back the Park."" Their efforts included demonstrations to evict drug dealers and drug addicts from a park in New York City. 18:40 ""Henry Moore Sculpture."" A teacher talks to teenagers about the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction while standing at the site where it occurred on the University of Chicago's campus. ""As we know, the course of mankind - of the world - has been changed as a result of what took place at this spot on December 2nd, 1942."" 19:15 ""Disarmament Survey"" by Skip Blumberg. A boy in New York discusses his fear of world nuclear proliferation. 20:20 ""South Africa and the Bomb"" by Globalvision and South Africa Now. A short segment in which American scientists and analysts discuss the threat posed by South Africa's clandestine nuclear weapons program. Includes 1977 footage of South Africa's former prime minister Johannes Vorster threatening the world to stop meddling in its nuclear plans: ""If these things continue and don't stop, the time will arrive when South Africa will have no option - small as it is - [but] to say to the world. 'So far and no further. Do your damnedest if you so wish!'"" A South African scientist warns, ""The free world hasn't got any way of assessing what South Africa is doing in the nuclear arena."" 24:10 Dr. Helen Caldicott discusses toxicity and carcinogenic nature of plutonium in this 1970's video. Access only 26:07 More from ""Duck and Cover."" 36:02 Excerpt from ""Ambassadors of Cabrini"" by Lilly Ollinger. Documentary about the Jesse White Tumblers, a gymnastic group made up predominantly of kids from the Chicago Housing Authority 's Cabrini Green. In this clip, we watch the Tumblers perform in the hallways of Cabrini and hear them talk about disadvantages they have suffered growing up in the projects. ""We can do the stuff that [the white kids] do. They can do it a little bit better because they have more money."" 37:19 A segment about the ""I Have a Dream"" Program in Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project. This program offers college scholarships, job training, and placement to inner city children in Chicago. 40:37 Sociology professor Bill Sampson discusses the failures of Cabrini Green and public housing in general. 45:08 ""Hudson River"" by Educational Video Center. Residents discuss the waste polluting New York's Hudson River. 51:13 Excerpt from ""Adland."" George Lois, chairman, Lois, Holland, Callaway, New York, explains the power that comes from commercial production - ""Poom! It's like poison gas..Poom! That's sensational. Oh yeah, that's great."" 52:38 More from ""Duck and Cover."

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 08/09/45 A-BOMB NAGASAKI: Vintage Color film footage of an Atomic Bomb blast (supposedly on Nagasaki Japan); Vintage BW footage of a WWII bomber taking off and flying; Bombadier looks through sites