Post by rubl on Jul 6, 2018 20:49:20 GMT 7
The Americans did a lot of nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is slowly releasing their archive, or at least those parts no longer deemed to need to be protected because of national security. Last year 750 clips were declassified with some put on youtube, later also lots of photos. Now some more clips. Seems some material had deteriorated a bit and needed restoration.
"Here Are More Than 250 Newly Released Videos of Nuclear Bomb Blasts
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is preserving decades-old test videos of the weapon that changed everything.
My favourite episode of David Lynch’s recent Twin Peaks: The Return is the innocuously titled “Gotta Light?” A lot of strange and terrifying things happen in that episode, but by far the strangest, the most terrifying, and oddly the most beautiful event is a dramatization of the first successful atomic bomb test in 1945 New Mexico.
Lynch brings the viewer deep into the blast, into the very heart of the evil that permeates the universe of Twin Peaks while Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” screeches ominously. Through abstract imagery, Lynch vividly evokes the feeling of confronting something too horrifying to process logically. This is how nuclear weapons should make us feel: wide-eyed and completely terrified, not just because they could be used against “us” but because these incomprehensibly destructive tools exist at all."
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkmdp/more-than-250-new-videos-of-nuclear-bomb-tests
From last year
www.llnl.gov/news/llnl-releases-newly-declassified-test-videos
www.businessinsider.com/new-nuclear-explosion-youtube-videos-llnl-2017-3
"Here Are More Than 250 Newly Released Videos of Nuclear Bomb Blasts
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is preserving decades-old test videos of the weapon that changed everything.
My favourite episode of David Lynch’s recent Twin Peaks: The Return is the innocuously titled “Gotta Light?” A lot of strange and terrifying things happen in that episode, but by far the strangest, the most terrifying, and oddly the most beautiful event is a dramatization of the first successful atomic bomb test in 1945 New Mexico.
Lynch brings the viewer deep into the blast, into the very heart of the evil that permeates the universe of Twin Peaks while Krzysztof Penderecki’s “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” screeches ominously. Through abstract imagery, Lynch vividly evokes the feeling of confronting something too horrifying to process logically. This is how nuclear weapons should make us feel: wide-eyed and completely terrified, not just because they could be used against “us” but because these incomprehensibly destructive tools exist at all."
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbkmdp/more-than-250-new-videos-of-nuclear-bomb-tests
From last year
www.llnl.gov/news/llnl-releases-newly-declassified-test-videos
www.businessinsider.com/new-nuclear-explosion-youtube-videos-llnl-2017-3
