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Soviet Nuclear Weapons Testing 1950s-1960s
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keywords: soviet union, nuclear weapons testing, nuclear explosions, tupolev tu-16 bomber, silo launch, lake chagan kazakhstan
Synopsis: Soviet nuclear weapons testing including the nuclear explosion Soviet Union's first H-Bomb, various other nuclear explosions - fireballs and mushroom clouds, how military equipment survived in the blast radius, an atomic underwater torpedo test, missile launch from a silo and creation of Lake Chagan via an underground nuclear blast.
- Date: 1950s-1960s
- Duration: 00:06:43
- Sound: Partial
- Color: Color/BW
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: Russian
- Location: Soviet Union
Shot List:
00:00
Russian military personnel deliver nuclear device to be loaded into a Tupolev Tu-16 bomber aircraft. Cut to the plane in flight.
00:15
RDS-3 a.k.a. Joe-3 atomic blast filmed on October 18, 1951 after being air-dropped.
00:36
August 1953 Soviet first thermonuclear H bomb RDS-S a.k.a. Joe-4 is detonated at the Semipalatinsk test site in the province of Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan)
01:09
1954 Totsk nuclear test.
01:27
November 1955 The Soviet Union tests it's fist two-stage hydrogen bomb code named RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk test site in the province of Kazakh SSR (Kazakhstan).
02:18
Color film compilation of Russian nuclear tests made in the former Soviet Union. Scenes include fireballs, mushroom clouds and powerful nuclear shock waves with resulting damage and destruction.
04:00
First Soviet underwater test of an atomic torpedo detonation in 1955.
04:14
Nuclear missile launch from a silo.
04:30
January 1965 Chagan underground nuclear blast creates Lake Chagan in Kazakhstan.
