 | Chinese High Yield Nuclear Test Footage of a Chinese airdropped bomb in the megaton energy range. Note what appears to be the sun in the fireball sequence to the left of the fireball. Thanks to goldenpanda for translating the narration: "bomb away!" "The hydrogen bomb gently falls toward the ground. It will be exploding 2900 meters above ground level" "9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, detonate!" "June 17th 1967, at 8:20am, our nation's first hydrogen bomb achieved success!" "A brightness appears by the fireball. It is indeed the sun." "From the first atomic explosion to the first thermo-nuclear explosion, it took USA 7 years 3 months, took the Soviet Union 4 years, took the United Kingdom 4 years 7 months (translator's note: france had not exploded hydrogen at this time). Our nation worked just over 2 years to achieve the momentus leap from atomic to hydrogen." "We now know in 1952, USA exploded a 65 ton, 3 story high aparratus. When the Soviet Union air dropped its first hydrogen bomb in 1953, the explosive force was 400 kilotons. Our nation during this test used a small size, low weight, mega-ton level bomb to destroy a designated target. This proves once again the Chinese people can do what foreigners can do, and we can do it better!" "Looking towards the enormous mushroom cloud rising into the sky, Marshal Lie exclaimed, three million tons, enough, that's quite enough!" (translator note: according to a Chinese general, by this time USA had threatened China seven times with nuclear attack) |
 | Russia nuclear test 715 tests (involving 969 devices) by official count. Soviet Union developed their first atomic bomb (Joe 1) and tested it on August 29, 1949 at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. The yield was 22 kilotons of TNT. During the 1950s these included new hydrogen bomb designs, which were tested in the Pacific, and also new and improved fission weapon designs. The Soviet Union also began testing on a limited scale, primarily in Kazakhstan. |
 | Pakistan nuclear test - パキスタン核実験 pakistan nuke. Pakistan's nuclear test site at Chagai, Baluchistan conducted in May, 1998. Yield around 9 kilotons |
 | Castle Bravo Nuclear Test Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a so-called dry fuel thermonuclear device, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, by the United States, as the first test of Operation Castle (a longer series of tests of various devices). Unexpected fallout from the detonation—intended to be a secret test—poisoned the crew of Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created international concern about atmospheric thermonuclear testing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_bravo |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #00 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #00 |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #01 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #01 |
 | Nuclear Weapons Test-596-Chinese Test 22kt This pure-fission U-235 implosion fission device named "596" was China's first nuclear test. The device weighed 1550 kg. No plutonium was available at this time. 596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. The People's Republic of China began developing nuclear weapons in the late 1950s with substantial Soviet assistance. The order for the Chinese nuclear weapons program, designated by the codename of "02", was given by Chairman Mao Tse Tsung himself, who believed that without a nuclear weapon China would not be taken seriously as a world power. The events of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954-55 cemented Mao's belief that unless China had nuclear weapons of its own, it would constantly be under the threat of nuclear blackmail from the United States. Prior to 1960, direct Soviet military assistance had included the provision of advisors and a vast variety of equipment. Of the assistance provided, most significant to China's future strategic nuclear capability were an experimental nuclear reactor, facilities for processing uranium, a cyclotron, and some equipment for a gaseous diffusions plant. At one point the Soviet Union even agreed to supply a prototype nuclear weapon for analysis by the Chinese; this agreement was not, however, put into effect. When Sino-Soviet relations cooled in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Soviet Union withheld plans and data for an atomic bomb, abrogated the agreement on transferring defense technology and, starting in 1960, began the withdrawal of Soviet advisors. Despite the termination of Soviet assistance, China committed itself to continue nuclear weapons development to break "the superpowers' monopoly on nuclear weapons", to ensure Chinese security against the Soviet and United States threats, and to increase Chinese prestige and power internationally, especially with France recently emerging as a new nuclear force in February 1960 (Gerboise Bleue). The motto at the time was: "Even the poorest tramp needs a dog-beating stick." The first Chinese atomic bomb, code-named 596, was detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nor nuclear test site. It was an implosion-style nuclear weapon, though it utilized uranium-235 exclusively for its core — most countries which pursue implosion technology use plutonium for their first cores, because it is usually easier to produce than uranium-235 — as at the time it had not developed plutonium-production technology. The test had a yield of 22 kilotons. China would manage to develop a fission bomb capable of being put onto a nuclear missile only two years after its first detonation, and would detonate its first hydrogen bomb only three years later in 1967. The United States intelligence agencies were caught off-guard by the Chinese test in 1964. Despite having photographed pre-test preparation at the Lop Nur nuclear testing site, many U.S. analysts believed that the Chinese were still months, if not years, away from having a functional nuclear weapon, in part because they erroneously assumed that the first Chinese bomb would be plutonium-fueled and that their Lanzhou diffusion enrichment facility was not yet operable (even though it had actually produced enough highly-enriched uranium for a number of bombs by that time). The U.S. analysts additionally misidentified a facility designed to produce uranium tetrafluoride as a plutonium production facility, making their estimates of Chinese plutonium production significantly off. It was only after radiochemical analysis of the fallout cloud from the Chinese test conclusively demonstrated that the bomb had been a U-235 implosion device, that these errors were re-examined in detail. *Credit Must Go To Trinity and Beyond by Peter Kuran for This Excellent Footage* |
 | Nuclear Testing Nuclear testing video with metal music playing |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #02 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #02 |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #03 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #03 |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #04 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #04 |
 | Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #05 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #05 |
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