Peace,
Happy
Proposition One Committee wrote:
> Does anyone know how to obtain or record the DOE-released atomic bomb test
> footage?
>
> HOLLYWOOD, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Call it the blasts
> from the past.
>
> The U.S. Department of Energy next month plans to
> release films of U.S. nuclear weapons tests taken by
> a secret team of filmmakers that have never publicly
> been shown before. . . .
>
> A first set of film was released earlier this year but the
> new set will show atmospheric tests and big bomb
> explosions publicly for the first time. . . .
>
> ``I was so amazed at the beautiful colors -- the pinks,
> the oranges, the reds -- that I totally forgot that the
> shock wave was coming. It almost knocked me on
> my rear,'' said cameraman Pat Bradley, 74, of the first
> of dozens of blasts he filmed. . . .
>
> An estimated 6,500 films and clips, most of them
> produced by the squadron, were locked away after
> physicists learned to calculate the yield and
> composition of the bombs from the size of the
> mushroom cloud and intensity of the fireball. . . .
>
> ``Somebody called up from one of the other agencies
> and said 'Where did you get that film from. We
> thought we destroyed them all,''' Energy Department
> declassification director Bryon Siebert said of
> SURVIVING FOOTAGE OF TESTS OF PROTOTYPE NUCLEAR
> WEAPONS DESIGNED TO BE CARRIED INTO BATTLE BY
> SOLDIERS. [Emphasis added]
>
> [Heavily edited]
>
> Respectfully submitted,
> Ike Jeanes