The Effects of Atomic Bomb Explosions

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Content warning: Graphic documentation of the effects of atomic bomb blast on the human body filmed at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Army-produced informational film created to instruct military personnel in understanding the effects of nuclear weapons. With documentation of the effects of atomic bomb blast on the human body filmed at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and with animation, infographics, and documentation of test blasts in the Pacific Ocean and in New Mexico. Incomplete film: some sequences are missing. Picture element only; no sound. For the accompanying sound element see item 203185_The_Effects_of_Atomic_Bomb_Explosions_Opt_Trk.

Description published in Index of Army Motion Pictures, Film Strips, Slides, and Phono-Recordings (1959): U.S. Army Miscellaneous Film MF 20-7815 "Preparation for atomic attack--Relative effects of various kinds of atomic explosions as determined at Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Pacific testing range, as well as the theoretical effects of ground-contact and underground explosions--Nuclear radiation (21 min--1951--From Armed Forces Special Weapons Project)."

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U.S. Army, Cascade Pictures

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