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Friday A/V Club: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is posting declassified footage of atomic tests on YouTube.

Nuclear test films would be eerie and hypnotic even if they didn't have the extra resonance they reap by representing the power to inflict mass death. And now there's more of them around: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is digitizing declassified atomic footage, and this month it started posting the clips online. Go to the lab's YouTube page, and you can watch the government nuking the water…

…the sky…

…and the space beneath the ground:

To peruse the whole catalog, go here. Bruce Conner makes art from atomic-test footage here. Stanley Kubrick makes art from atomic-test footage here. The health consequences of being near such tests are explored here. Past editions of the Friday A/V Club are here.

Comments

[Zeb]

Awesome. I love nuclear explosion videos.

Nobody give me any nuclear bombs, because if I had them, I'd definitely use them.

[Jerryskids]

No trigger warning for us delicate snowflakes? For shame!

[Warren]

There was a brief period of above ground testing. It was visible from Las Vegas, which naturally made it a tourist attraction.
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[$park? leftist poser]

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[balff]

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[loveconstitution1789]

You know who also blew up nuclear families?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Can we finally talk about the government blowing up nuclear families?

[NotAnotherSkippy]

Fallout 5: We're Sorry

[Stilgar]

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[loveconstitution1789]

Even better is a coffee table book about coffee tables. Little table legs included!

[Robert]

Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs!

[NinnaDiva]

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I loved Stanley Kubrick atomic art.
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