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The Screening Room / War & the Bomb

Operation Crossroads

1948 · 27 minutes · Colour

[FILM: Operation Crossroads, 1948]

In 1946 the US detonated two atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll to see what they would do to a fleet of empty warships. This is the military’s own colour film of the tests.

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The underwater "Baker" blast lifting a column of sea into the sky.

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COLOUR18 min The Battle of Midway1942 · John Ford / US Navy

COLOUR41 min The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress1944 · William Wyler / US Army Air Forces

B&W9 min Duck and Cover1951 · Federal Civil Defense Administration

COLOUR14 min A Is for Atom1953 · General Electric / John Sutherland Productions

COLOUR10 min Brotherhood of Man1947 · United Productions of America

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