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  • National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office, via Wikimedia

    Watch these declassified nuclear test films on YouTube

    by 
    Stefanie Fogel
    Stefanie Fogel
    03.16.2017

    There's something both beautiful and unnerving about a mushroom cloud. The United States conducted around 216 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992, many taking place in Nevada and the Pacific Proving Grounds. Now, rare videos of those detonations are declassified and available to the public for the first time.