Sentences with phrase «nuclear tests films»

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) released 62 newly declassified videos today of atmospheric nuclear tests films that have never before been seen by the public.

«Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films.»

His new mission had become clear: reanalyze all the nuclear test films to ensure future computer simulations would be validated.

Not exact matches

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

Between 1945 and 1962 the U.S. conducted more than 200 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and captured the detonations on film.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

Using a 1,600 - pound Cold War - era camera (originally used to film nuclear tests) retrofitted with digital sensors and special software, Samaras strove to capture the dazzling moment a lightning strike is born, hoping these high - resolution photographs would provide insights into how lightning forms and why lightning bolts often follow an erratic path.

By cleverly tying the film in with real world events, like the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in the 50s, the film feels a teensy bit more believable than any of the other Godzilla films, aside from maybe the original Gojira.

After all, Godzilla, in the original 1954 film, was a creature from the Cambrian period who was dislodged by American nuclear testing.

In 1976, Bruce Conner made a 37 - minute film called Crossroads for which he culled footage of U.S. nuclear - weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.

The second part of the exhibition, in Bataan, includes the 36 - minute film Crossroads (1976), assembled from archival footage of the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear weapons test conducted at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946.

In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.

The film Somewhere, 2014, and the photographic series Polygon, 2015, document the devastation caused by human activity in Semipalatinsk, the site in Kazakhstan where, between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests.

Thomas Dane Gallery's explosive new exhibition spotlights Bruce Conner's heart - stopping film Crossroads and the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll