US Nuclear Test Videos Just Released
Of the total scanned films, 750 are no longer "Top Secret", and 63 were released on the lab channel on YouTube.
In the 1940s and 1960s, the United States conducted hundreds of nuclear tests, and images of some of these experiments are well known and have been circulating on the Internet for some time. However, most of the films captured during rehearsals still remain under the watchful custody of the US government - and kept well out of the public eye.
The problem is that the experiments were captured on film itself, and that material, as you may know, is subject to deterioration over time. Thus, because of the "Top Secret" rating of the rehearsals, about 10,000 reels of films that were locked in high-security vaults scattered throughout the United States literally began to rot.
Recovering the Past
Fortunately, the US government decided to become part of the public material and, according to David Szondy of the New Atlas portal, five years ago, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff began to work against time to digitize, analyze, and Preserving the filming of 210 nuclear tests conducted between the years 1945 and 1962 - recorded at 2,400 frames per second.
Fortunately, the US government decided to become part of the public material and, according to David Szondy of the New Atlas portal, five years ago, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff began to work against time to digitize, analyze, and Preserving the filming of 210 nuclear tests conducted between the years 1945 and 1962 - recorded at 2,400 frames per second.
This is because the information contained in the films, as well as having undeniable historical value, are of great importance for research in the area and are meant for scientists and engineers to maintain and modernize the US nuclear arsenal. In addition, the work of the laboratory team is not limited to scanning the images of the films, but also gathering documents and analyzing the data collected during the nuclear tests.
In fact, when the first records were evaluated, experts realized that much of the studies published at the time the trials were conducted had misinformation. According to laboratory staff, the reason for this is that the analysis of the experiments was done manually, without the aid of sophisticated equipment or scanners, which means that scientists had to study and draw their conclusions from thousands upon thousands Of frames - which could easily lead to misunderstandings.
In addition, even with a large analyst team, reading the movies took several days. With the technology available today, the lab team is able to do the same job in minutes - so much so that, of 10,000 film reels, 6,500 have already been recovered, and something around 400-500 analyzed by Specialists.
Of the total scanned films, 750 were no longer "Top Secret", and 63 were released on the lab channel on YouTube
Source: Tec Mundo
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