The Government's Secret Footage of Nuclear Tests Is Still Eerie Decades Later

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Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer, eponymously named after the creator of the atomic bomb, has renewed public interest in America’s dark history with nuclear weapons.

The US military once detonated a nuclear bomb directly above the heads of 5 officers

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US military Private First Class Jack Wilson (left, fore) and Sergeant Glenn Poth (right, fore) look at the smoke plume of a nuclear detonation as part of Operation Tumbler-Snapper at the Nevada Proving Grounds, Nevada, early to mid 1952.
The five men weren't required — — to stand under the explosion, which, unlike the one pictured here, would have been in the air, about three miles up.

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A manhole cover launched into space with a nuclear test is the fastest human-made object. A scientist on Operation Plumbbob told us the unbelievable story.

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craters from nuclear weapons tests in nevada pockmark the barren dessert land
The pockmarked Nevada Testing Site, strewn with craters from all the nuclear weapons tests that took place there.

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