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Nuclear war films. Vol. 10, Operations Hardtack, Argus, Gnome & Nougat : nuclear weapons employed from the edge of space to the Earth's interior and about the oceans in-between from before the 1958-61 nuclear test moratorium to the search for peaceful applications / J.D. Kaelin, Jr.
LIBRA DVD 017 783
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operation Hardtack, 1958.
- Nuclear weapons--United States--History.
- Nuclear weapons.
- United States.
- History.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing.
- Operation Argus, 1958.
- Nuclear excavation.
- Underground nuclear explosions.
- Project Gnome.
- Operation Nougat, 1961.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Detection.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Educational films.
- Short films.
- Silent films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : silent and sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Operations Hardtack, Argus, Gnome & Nougat
- Operations Hardtack, Argus, Gnome and Nougat
- Nuclear weapons employed from the edge of space to the Earth's interior and about the oceans in-between from before the 1958-61 nuclear test moratorium to the search for peaceful applications
- Place of Publication:
- [Bayonne, NJ] : EarthStation1.com : J.C. Kaelin, Jr., [2006]
- System Details:
- DVD-R, region-free.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- (Excerpts from Operation Hardtack) Raw footage of the preparations for, and the few seconds during and after the multiple blasts in this series of tests. A wide variety of delivery systems are employed.
- (Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA) A series of dry runs and live tests conducted 400 miles above the south Atlantic Ocean, to study disruptions of communications and radar by nuclear devices. This inter-service project was concluded only five months after it was first in the planning stages.
- (Project Gnome) Project Gnome, the first test in the Operation Plowshare series, was a deep underground test conducted to study the feasibility of nuclear explosions as tools in mining and excavation.
- (Vela Uniform participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome) Vela Uniform Program studied seismological wave patterns from 'peaceful-use' nuclear tests, as a means of detecting nuclear tests world-wide. Vela Uniform is a project under the supervision of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency.
- Contents:
- Excerpts from Operation Hardtack / produced by United States Air Force, Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Hollywood, California (17 min.)
- Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA / Armed Forces Special Weapons Project presents ; produced by United States Air Force, Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Hollywood, California (45 min.)
- Project Gnome / the United States Atomic Energy Commission ; and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California present ; produced by Graphic Arts (29 min.)
- Vela Uniform participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome / the Defense Atomic Support Agency presents (21 min.).
- Participant:
- (Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA) Introduction and conclusion, Rear Admiral Edward N. Parker, Chief, AFSWP; host, Capt. William Wallace.
- (Project Gnome) Introduction by Dr. Edward Teller.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of four motion pictures produced in 1958 (Excerpts from Operation Hardtack, and Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA), 1961 (Operation Gnome) and 1962 (Vela participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome).
- Excerpts from Operation Hardtack is a silent film.
- "Recently declassified U.S. Government films detailing how America planned to win a nuclear war."--Container.
- "This video has been sanitized. Classified portions have been removed. U.S. Department of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office. Robert T. Henderson, ADD. This formerly classified video has been declassified by DOE - Charles Demos (ADD)."--Opening frames, Excerpts from Operation Hardtack. "This video unclassified per U.S. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations Office."--Opening frames, Project Gnome.
- "Project 30-95-59."--Closing frames, Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA. "Film # 0800034."--Opening frames, Project Gnome. "Project 30-197B-52."--Closing frames, Vela Uniform participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome.
- Aspect ratio 4:3.
- Contains:
- Excerpts from Operation Hardtack
- Operation Argus : report of Chief, AFSWPA to ARPA
- Project Gnome
- Vela Uniform participation in Operation Nougat and Gnome
- OCLC:
- 713030315
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