Climax atom bomb test. High-speed footage showing the fireball at the moment of detonation. This nuclear weapons test took place on 4 June 1953, at the Nevada Test Site, USA. Codenamed Climax, it was the 11th test in the Operation Upshot-Knothole series. It was detonated as an air drop, and had a yield of 61 kilotons.
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<br/>Aerial shots of bombs dropping from plane during raid over enemy territory. Bombs fall away through cloud. Aerial shots some showing bomb bursts and explosions on ground far below. Quick LS of bomber on raid.
Air drop for first Soviet megaton hydrogen bomb, 1955
Air drop for first Soviet megaton hydrogen bomb. Footage of the air drop for the detonation of the first megaton-range hydrogen bomb (RDS-37) test by the USSR on 22 November 1955 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in what is now Kazakhstan. Hydrogen bombs (thermonuclear weapons) use nuclear fusion reactions and are many times more powerful than the first atomic bombs that only used nuclear fission. A total of 456 Soviet nuclear tests were conducted at the Semipalatinsk site between 1949 and 1989.
Impact of a M-117 general purpose bomb dropped in Vietnam.
Aerials of jungle area in Vietnam. Bomb explosion results in smoke clouds. Plane overhead drops M-117 bombs. Bombs explode. Location: Vietnam. Date: September 4, 1967.