Developing and Producing the B-61 Thermonuclear Bomb

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On the development and production of the primary US H-Bomb, the B-61 Thermonuclear Bomb. The B61 is of the variable yield ("dial a yield") design with a yield of 0.3 to 340 kilotons.

Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

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Wikimedia Commons, in Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain, as the Wikimedia Commons states it.

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Public domain

Credit

The Information Division, Albuquerque Operations Office, Video tape 0800072 (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, dated “1970s,” sanitized and declassified March 1998) 26:29 minutes

Subtitles

German, English (machine transcript)

English subtitles

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