Sentences with phrase «atoll bomb tests»
With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)
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This neutron - multiplying ability of lithium was discovered in 1954, when the Castle Bravo H - bomb test on Bikini Atoll produced twice the expected yield, with consequences for the islanders of nearby Rongelap among others.
Men have devised and tested a most impressive way of annihilating each other, detonating the bomb in secret on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
She delivers his papers: The Rockland Courier Gazette and the New York Times, a day late, carrying news of Watergate and Vietnam; Erskine Childers's son elected president of Ireland; Papua New Guinea's first elected chief minister; France testing its atomic bombs on Mururoa Atoll.
In 1954, a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll exposed the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 to radioactive fallout.
On July 25, 1946, «Operation Crossroads» detonated «Baker,» the first underwater atomic bomb test, 909 feet under Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Watching the recent digital restoration of Bruce Conner's thirty - six - minute film Crossroads, 1976, which depicts 1946 footage of the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, is a vertiginous experience of telescoping back in time.
The footage Conner found in the National Archives was of the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1946.
Two of Conner's best known compilations of American disasters play back to back: REPORT (1963 — 67), his record of the media's shaping of the Kennedy assassination, and his most concise statement on television; and CROSSROADS (1976), his revision of military footage from the 1945 atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.
Conner, in one fine example, uses his skillful way with collage to merge a figure wearing a military jacket with an iconic image of mushroom clouds from the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, reanimating (and giving a psychological dimension) to an image of power and destruction that might not seem as safely far in the past as it used to.