MEDICAL ASPECTS OF RADIATION (1950 - 20:14) - A pretty girl laying by a poolside serves as an example of nuclear ionization by the four different missiles of nuclear ejecta - gamma rays, neutrons, alpha & beta particles. Relying on a number of animated diagrams, one of which looks like several of the seven dwarves on the night shift, the machinery of the human mechanism (their words) is shown to slow up terminally, or not at all, based on radioactive exposure. Once you've been fully reassured that toupees are just fine as cure for radiation baldness, and that the mutations in your offspring will probably be for the better rather than the worse, you'll be pacified enough to remember all about that Roentgen meter stuff that came before it, and maybe all of that "half life" mumbo jumbo - who knows, you may even forget all about that sterility stuff, too!

THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE (1954 - 12:09) - Need one say more that "the premise of this film is that keeping your house neat & clean is your last best defense against nuclear attack"? OK - how about "this film was selected for the 2002 National Film Registry of 'artistically, culturally, and socially significant' films"? LOTS of atomic tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds, too - let alone mannequin families!

ATOMIC ALERT (ELEMENTARY VERSION) (1951 - 10:34) - This civil defense procedure film starts with the arming of a bunch of high school students with a geiger counter, which is promptly turned upon their own persons in the search for radioactive substances. Stressing "we're all on the team", the audience is asked "what is your job?". You don't have to answer, you're told what it is - it's to know and to act upon every little bit of nuclear what-do-you-do that's been packed into this film. We of today have much to learn from them then - this film's a veritable checklist of where to go, what to have, and what to do when - and if there's a knock on your door after a nuclear blast, it's not an atomic zombie - it's your friendly neighborhood block warden!

DUCK AND COVER (1951 - 9:15) - Hands down (and everything else), this is the most famous civil defense film of them all. This film for children, through the person of Bert the Turtle, teaches kids what to do in the event an atomic bomb is dropped. Just as Bert has a shell, kids have to learn how to take cover in their own way in case of a nuclear attack. Comparisons are made between things children already know and things that are like them in an atomic explosion - sunlight and atomic flash, sunburn and radiation, etc. - all in order to emphasize and impress upon them the danger. It's all done in an effort to communicate one over-riding message - kids must learn to fall to the ground and cover their necks and heads - in other words, to duck & cover!

OUR CITIES MUST FIGHT (1951 - 9:00) - A U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration film on the need for America's city dwellers not to mind the fact that they are being nuked and to stand and fight an (imagined) invading enemy rather than evacuate.

RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE (1961 - 26:17) - The U.S. Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization produced this film on the dangers of and defenses against radioactive fallout. In the words of the narrator, "as serious as fallout is, we can cope with it through an active radiological defense program".

DVD #2: NUCLEAR WAR: ATOMIC CIVIL DEFENSE & PROPAGANDA FILMS
The Historic Broadcast Time Capsule Project Recorded For The National Archives - The Entire Broadcast Day Of The CBS Radio Affiliate From Washington, D.C. At A Pivotal Moment In U.S. History Where The Great Depression & World War II Met In Time:
ABOUT FALLOUT (1955, 8:20) - The U.S. Department of Defense produced this film to "debunk" popular beliefs about nuclear fallout. It in fact is itself worthy of debunking - you just have to see how the audience is instructed to simply "wash and wipe" contaminated foods to make them safe for eating after a nuclear attack to have sufficient need to see this film!

ABOUT FALLOUT (1963, 22:25) - The U.S. Department of Defense found that it's earlier film by the same name was so good, and that so much more needed to be told, that they took that film and expanded by nearly twice its original size. Especially fun to compare to the original to see what had changed, what had not & what was edited out.

HANFORD SCIENCE FORUM (1957, 9:46) - General Electric sponsored this television piece of residential propaganda to assure the residents of Richland, Washington that the Hanford Plutonium Plant was not poisoning the Columbia River with radioactive agents.

THE DAY CALLED X (1955, 27:11) - CBS Television produced this remarkable dramatization, narrated by celebrated actor Glenn Ford, of the nuclear evacuation plans adopted by the city of Portland, Oregon.

MANAGEMENT OF MASS CASUALTIES, PART 10: MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CASUALTIES (1958, 23:13) - An absolutely extraordinary U.S. Army film that seeks to educate medical professionals on how to recognize and treat the many different reactions soldiers were expected to exhibit after a nuclear attack.

STAY SAFE, STAY STRONG: THE FACTS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS (1960, 22:43) - A splendid piece of interdepartmental propaganda, produced for the U.S. Air Force in color live action & animated format, seeking to instruct their personnel about the power, physics, testing, delivery and handling of nuclear weapons.

SURVIVAL UNDER ATOMIC ATTACK (1951, 8:45) - The great Edward R. Murrow narrates this film for the U.S. Office of Civil Defense that seeks to educate its audience about the destructive power of nuclear weapons, to explain the associate phenomenon of nuclear radiation, and to assure the public that they will be safe as long as they follow proper procedures. Very much a time capsule of the attitudes of this era.

DVDs #3 & 4: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME I: THE BEGINNING & THE END - ATOMIC WEAPONS ORIENTATION FILMS
Recently Declassified U. S. Government Films Detailing How America Planned To Win A Nuclear War On 2 DVDs!
The Defense Atomic Support Agency Presents - #1 - Project 30-11-60 Part 1 (Revised) - Atomic Weapons Orientation (16:45)

The Defense Atomic Support Agency Presents - #3 - Project 30-11-52 Part 3 - A Special Weapons Orientation - Weapons Family (5:25)

The Defense Atomic Support Agency Presents - #4 - Project 30-11-61 Part 4 (Revised) - Atomic Weapons Support Operations (11:28)

The Defense Atomic Support Agency Presents -#5 - Project 30-11-64 Part 5 (Revised) - Effects Of Atomic Weapons (14:36)

The Defense Atomic Support Agency Presents - #6 - Project 30-11-54 Part 6 - The Thermonuclear Explosion (28:31)

DVD #5: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME II: THE BEGINNING: BIKINI ATOMIC TESTS & NUCLEAR TESTING REVIEW
More Recently Declassified U. S. Government Films Detailing How America Planned To Win A Nuclear War On 2 DVDs!
Project Crossroads - Test Able / Project Crossroads - Test Baker (1946, 41:33) - The U. S. Military's preliminary assessment of the first atomic tests conducted after World War II.

Nuclear Testing Review (1990s, 25:09) - Sandia Lab's production for the U. S. Department of Energy regarding their ongoing project to identify and release atomic testing films to the public.

DVDs #6 & 7: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME III: SHARPENING THE SWORD: OPERATION SANDSTONE 2 DVD SET
New Bomb Designs Perfected, Thermonuclear Fusion Tested And Live Troops Sent Into The Fray
Joint Task Force Three Presents Operation Greenhouse (1951, Color, 1:19:10) - Air Force Lt. General Elwood Quesada introduces this film which documents the technical aspects of his Task Force's experiments in perfecting the design of the Mk 5 & MK6 bombs and in testing thermonuclear fission, the latter of which if proved feasable would allow for the production of a Hydrogen bomb device.

DVD #8: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME IV: OPERATION GREENHOUSE & EXERCISE DESERT ROCK
New Bomb Designs Perfected, Thermonuclear Fusion Tested And Live Troops Sent Into The Fray
Joint Task Force Three Presents Operation Greenhouse (1951, Color, 1:19:10) - Air Force Lt. General Elwood Quesada introduces this film which documents the technical aspects of his Task Force's experiments in perfecting the design of the Mk 5 & MK6 bombs and in testing thermonuclear fission, the latter of which if proved feasable would allow for the production of a Hydrogen bomb device.

DVD #9: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME V: OPERATIONS BUSTER/JANGLE & TUMBLER/SNAPPER
Live Troops Sent Into The Fray, New Bomb Designs Perfected, Bombing Techniques Tested & Tactical Nuclear Weapons Developed
Department Of Defense Presents - Military Participation On Buster Jangle (1951, Color, 1:15:55) - With the Korean war raging, the Defense Department was keen to get operational a lighter weight and lower yield tactical nuclear device, and to perfect bombing techniques so as to maximum destructive potential against surface targets. This latter objective is to be compared with the fact that these tests were the first to include live troops who were sent into the vicinity of an atomic blast shortly after detonation. The DoD trumpeted the interservice cooperation that made the Buster/Jangle series of tests possible with the production of this film.

The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project Presents: Technical Report - Tumbler-Snapper (1952, B&W, 10:57) - A formerly highly classifed film intended to illustrate the more technical aspects and results of these tests to the high brass of the various branches of the armed services.

DVD #10: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME VI: OPERATIONS TUMBLER, IVY, DOORSTEP & CASTLE
Bombing Techniques Tested, First H-Bomb Detonated, New Bomb Designs Perfected & Civil Defense Measures Evaluated
Operation Tumbler - A Photographic Study Of Blast And Thermal Phenomena (1952, Color, 22:21) - With the Korean War raging, the Defense Department was keen to perfect bombing techniques so as to maximize destructive potential against surface targets. A major obstacle to this goal was the unreliability of mathematical formulae then in use to predict blast yield and its associated effects. This film documents the technological and methodological measuring techniques used and photographic analyses employed in the obtaining of data necessary to arrive at more accurate blast yield predictions.

DVD #11: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME VII: OPERATION UPSHOT/KNOTHOLE, THE ATOMIC CANNON & OPERATION TEAPOT
Bomb Damage Assesments Evaluated, Nuclear Artillery Deployed & New Bomb Designs Perfected
Operation Upshot-Knothole Project (1953, B&W, 20:50) - A more detailed analysis made upon a large number of project film shorts demonstrating the individualized effects of nuclear detonations upon military ground facilities, forest trees, F-47 aircraft, various civilian home configurations and more.

Effects On B-50 Aircraft (1953, B&W, Silent, 18:23) - The specific effects of a nuclear detonation upon B-50 bomber aircraft flying at altitude at various distances from a group of 4 consecutive explosions are documented in film before, during and after flight.

The 280MM Atomic Gun At The Nevada Proving Ground (1953, Color, 10:26) - The infamous "Atomic Cannon" is tested at the Nevada Proving Grounds prior to its being deployed throughout Western Europe.

Operation Teapot - Military Effects Studies (1953, B&W, 30:46) - A series of 14 detonations incorporating a variety of new and experimental atomic designs conducted with an eye to standardizing atomic design models into more efficient and universally employable devices.

Military Effects On Operation Redwing (1956, Color, 31:54) - Leaner and meaner devices resulted from conclusions of prior nuclear tests featured in this DVD series, and in Operation Redwing, the devices themselves were put to the test. Devices the size of volleyballs, "clean" or low fallout designs and deliberately "dirty or high fallout devices were all tested, and were deployed at the Eniwetok Proving Ground varioiusly atop towers, dropped from aircraft, barge floated and otherwise.

Operation Redwing (1956, Color, 26:21) - The Commander of Joint Task Force 7.3 Rear Admiral Hanlon's film documenting the assessments and determinations that were made as a result of Operation Redwing.

The United States Atomic Energy Commission Presents - Operation Plumbbob: Weapons Development Report (1957, Color, 22:22) - An extraordinary and controversial series of tests involving 43 military effects tests to determine the effects of a variety of nuclear devices in terms of blast against buildings, the biological effects of radiation upon pigs and more. These were the largest tests ever conducted at the Nevada Proving Ground, and they resulted in fallout determined to be responsible for up to 38,000 cases of throid cancer due to exposure to I-131. One can only wonder what use may have been made of the data obtained from the tests on the air drop capabilities of helicopters and blimps.

DVD #13: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME IX: OPERATIONS PLUMBBOB & HARDTACK
Military Effects Quantified, Ballistic Missile Systems Evaluated & Designs Rush-Tested Before The 1958-1961 Nuclear Test Moratorium
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project Presents - Operation Plumbbob - Military Effects Studies (1957, Color, 32:18) - A controversial series of tests, further documented in Nuclear War Films Vol. VIII, involving 43 military effects tests to determine the effectiveness of variousf nuclear device configurations in terms of blast against buildings, the biological effects of radiation and more. These tests resulted in fallout responsible for as many as to 38,000 cases of throid cancer due to I-131 exposure. The air drop capabilities of helicopters and blimps are examples of the unconventional nature of these tests, all covered by this film with especial emphasis to quantification of the effects produced by each test.

Operation Hardtack - Military Effects Studies - Parts 1-4 (1958, Color) - When it became apparent that the US and USSR were about to agree to a nuclear test moratorium, the Department of Defense decided to conduct the largest nuclear test series yet, featuring as many new devices as could be rushed into production. Especial interest was given to ballistic missiles, both intercontinental and submarine-launched, and both high altitide and underwater detonations. Due to the complex nature of the tests, a set of 4 films was produced: Part One - Basic Effects, Structures & Materiel (26:27), Part Two - High Altitude Tests 24:58), Part Three - Underwater Tests (18:11) and Part Four - Sub-Kiloton Effects (Silent, 23:06).

DVD #14: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME X: OPERATIONS HARDTACK, ARGUS, GNOME & NOUGAT
Nuclear Weapons Employed From The Edge Of Space To The Earth's Interior And About The Oceans In-Between From Before The 1958-61 Nuclear Test Moratorium To The Search For Peaceful Applications
Excerpts From Operation Hardtack (1958, Color, Silent, 16:53) - When it became apparent that the US and USSR were about to agree to a nuclear test moratorium, the Department of Defense decided to conduct the largest nuclear test series yet, featuring as many new devices as could be rushed into production. Especial interest was given to ballistic missiles, both intercontinental and submarine-launched, and both high altitide and underwater detonations. This film is a one reel selection of notable events of these tests, particularly extraordinary footage of detonations and close-ups on affected ships in target areas.

DVD #15: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME XI: OPERATION DOMINIC
High Altitude Testing Resumes, Weapons & Delivery Systems Perfected
Dominic Fireballs - Pacific Testing Christmas Island Area (1962, Color, Silent, 43:53) - Extraordinary color footage of a large number of the high altitude detonations that constituted the 36 tests of this series. These tests were a more comprehensive response to the Soviet Union's breaking its nuclear test moratorium agreement with the United States than the modest first response tests that were Operation Nougat a couple of weeks after the treaty abrogation.

EG&G Operation Dominic Scientific Photography - Bluestone Event (1962, Black & White, Silent, 8:06) - More extraordinary footage of the fireballs of the test series.

DVD #16: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME XII: OPERATION FISHBOWL DVD
High Altitude Testing Is Resumed & Evaluated
Fishbowl High-Altitude Weapons Effects (1962, Sound, 27:50) - The high-altitude detonation experiments utilizing the Thor ballistic missle that comprised the Operation Fishbowl series of tests were themselves a subset of the much larger 36 air drop test series of Operation Dominic. They were a more comprehensive response to the Soviet Union's breaking its nuclear test moratorium agreement with the United States than the modest first response tests that were Operation Nougat a couple of weeks after the treaty abrogation. This film documents with easy-to-follow illustrations the major aspects of the Fishbowl test series.

Four Films:1) Starfish Prime Event Interim Report By Commander JTF-8 (Sound); 2) Fishbowl Auroral Sequences (Silent); 3) Dominic On Fishbowl Phenomenon (Silent); 4) Fishbowl XR Summary (Silent) {1962, 1:09:22} - A films series intended to debrief the subject of Operation Fishbowl aerial photography. The first film exhibits the particulars of theStarfish Prime test of Operation Fishbowl, then displays a large variety of unearthly aerial test film sequences.

DVDs #17 & 18: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME XIII: END GAME: ATOMIC WEAPONS AFTERMATH FILMS 2 DVD SET
High Altitude Testing Resumes, Weapons & Delivery Systems Perfected
Developing and Producing The B-61 (Color, Sound, 26:02) - This bomb has become the mainstay of U.S. thermonuclear arsenal. Developed in order to create a lightweight, versatile weapon delivery system that could be carried aloft by a wide variety of aircraft to perform a number of different detonation tasks, it has become the nuclear gravity bomb standard. During the years since its original design in 1963, it has changed little from its basic design, and then only to modify it for specialized tasks that the perfection of its design basis makes ample allowance for.

Damage And Destruction Films (Color, Silent, 17:17) - A collage of the most graphic, poignant and important 1950s era nuclear test films detailing the damage wrought by nuclear explosions.

Let's Face It (Color, Sound, 14:03) - Excellent overview of Civil Defense measures that 1950s war planners thought important, and more importantly, not important, to implement during a nuclear attack. A priceless time capsule.

Enewetak Cleanup (Color, Sound, 12:47) - The Enewetak (also known as Eniwetok) atoll in the Marshall Islands U.S. Pacific Nuclear proving grounds, having been blasted over & over from 1948 to 1962, became in 1977 the subject of a massive project, involving many service branches, when the natives who were evacuated (sometimes forcibly) from the island began slowly to return to the island to live. This film documents the history of that project.

162° 15' East, 11° 30' North: Navy Participation In Atomic Tests (13:12) - A late 1950s propganda film intended to show Navy men engaged in Pacific Proving Grounds work what they could expect from involvement in nuclear test operations, with reference to films of prior nuclear tests at the proving grounds and a narrative that intends to explain the lessons learned from them.

Military Effects Studies On Operation Castle (39:00) - A late 1950s propganda film intended to show Navy men engaged in Pacific Proving Grounds work what they could expect from involvement in nuclear test operations, with reference to films of prior nuclear tests at the proving grounds and a narrative that intends to explain the lessons learned from them.

Effects Of Nuclear Weapons Part IV- The Water Burst (32:45) - A lecture upon the full range of effects from detonations approximate to water utilizing intercut test film footage and easy-to-follow animated diagrams.

Operation Castle Washdown Countermeasures (15:16) - One of the objectives of the Castle series of tests was to determine how effective hosing-down the exteriors of ships subjected to nuclear detonations would be in removing radioactivity. The results were basically twofold - it could be effective in removing radiation from ships, but not in removing the lethality of this radiation to sailors onboard.

Atomic Guided Missiles (11:22) - An excellent overview of the six primary guided missile delivery systems for nuclear weapons extant in the late 1950s: the Honest John, Corporal, Regulus, Matador, Snark and Rascal.

DVD #19: NUCLEAR WAR FILMS VOLUME XIV: OPERATIONS CANNIKIN & PLOWSHARE DVD
Atomics At War & Peace Underground
Project Cannikan (13:14) - The Atomic Energy Commission's 1971 series of underground tests conducted on Amchitka Island, Alaska, at 11:00 a.m., Bering Standard Time, on November 6, 1971. It's purpose: to test the design of the Spartan anti-ballistic missile, itself a high-yield nuclear warhead that produced sufficient x-rays and debris to prevent the blackout of ABM radar systems. It also resulted in the formation of a peace activist organization created to stop these tests which ultimately transformed itself into Greenpeace. This film pays particular attention to the overal planning and specific results of the project in a tone both executive and scholarly.

The Amchitka Program (24:16) - This film pays particular attention to Project Cannikan's organization and execution in a reassuring tone no doubt intended to calm the objections of those hostile to the project.

Plowshare (28:06) - A 1973 film which looks back over the prior 12 some years of this project which endeavored to find peaceful uses of Atomic energy, particularly with regard to excavation, citing Micah 4:3 ("And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more").

Excavating With Nuclear Explosives - 1968 saw the creation of this film by the Atomic Energy commission with the purpose of selling government and industry the concept of nuclear excavation by way of recounting the progress of the project up to that point.

DVD #20: NUCLEAR NEWSREELS & PATHÈTIC ATOMIC TESTS
7 Vintage Newsreels & Government Information Films On Nuclear Weapons Testing, Civil Defense & Nuclear Energy, Specially Edited for Classroom Presentation - Over 2 Hours Packed Into 1 DVD!
JOE BONICA'S MOVIE OF THE MONTH - ATOM BOMB (1946, 7:26) - Vintage early atomic newsreels documenting atomic testing on Bikini Atoll, Mercury & Yucca Flats, Nevada & more, plus classic shots of soldiers in trenches just outside of an Atomic blast, & still more. Classic.

THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SCREEN: ATOMIC ENERGY (1950S, 21:26) - Excellent compilation of 1950s newsreel stories on atomic weapons testing, civil defense and nuclear energy.

THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SCREEN - VOL. 2, ISSUE 6 (1952, 22:59) - Edited for use in schools, this collection of newsreels includes the Frenchman's Flat, Nevada nuclear test. Also includes coverage Eisenhower's candicacy for President, a blizzard at the Donner Pass, a visit to the U. S. by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Milan's Luigi Livraghi and his raw vegetable figurines, the heroic actions of the Captain of the "Flying Enterprise" Henrik Carlsen & more.

THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SCREEN - VOL. 5, ISSUE 10 (1955, 21:18) - Edited for use in schools, a collection of newsreels which includes civil defense drills for a nuclear attack. Also includes coverage of Saigon at war, Morocco, Germany & Austria, the end of New York City's Third Avenue elevated railroad, more.

OPERATION CROSSROADS (1946, 26:36) - The U.S. Navy's detailed account of the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, known also as the Able Day & Baker Day atomic tests. Elaborate documentary that provides intact so much of what all of us nowadays see only in outtakes used in documentaries made ever since.

OPERATION CUE (1955, 14:36) - The famed color documentary made by the U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration about how housing and mannequins held up to atomic blasts, performed at the Nevada test site of the Atomic Energy Commission.

OPERATION CUE (1964, 14:02) - An update of the 1955 film of the same name, this time attempting to demonstrate how much nuclear weapons yields have grown in the nine intervening years.

DVD #21: HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMBING DOCUMENTARIES WWII DVD
3 TV Documentaries On The Atomic Bombing Of The Japanese City Of Hiroshima - 100 Minutes On 1 All Regions DVD!
TEN SECONDS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (45 Min., B&W) - CBS documentary narrated by Richard Basehart that serves to encapsulate the events the lead to and included the first use of atomic weapons into a form that is easily accessible and accurate.

AIR POWER - THE DEFEAT OF JAPAN (24 Min., B&W) - Walter Cronkite narrates as this venerable epic World War II documentary series explains the aerial warfare events immediately prior to and including the atomic bombing of Hiroshim with precision and insight. Special attention is given to the May 1945 fire bombing raids that wrought even greater devastation than both the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: HIROSHIMA (24 Min., B&W) - Walter Cronkite narrates his other distinguished World War II documentary series and sets the definitive standard for the short form TV documentary on this subject.