Search for the super

United States, 1975

Film
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Episode of Series “Visions of War”.
This is the fascinating background story to the making and testing of the first H-Bomb. It contains much fine colour archive film as well as contributions from many of the principal participants in the hydrogen-bomb saga. The story continues on from the first atomic bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, through to the bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1954.

Credits

co-director

Anne Batty

Peter Batty

production company

Peter Batty Productions

Language

English

Duration

00:51:20:00

Colour

Colour

ACMI Identifier

34600

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion pictures - Archival resources

Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels

Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Atomic bomb

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Atomic bomb - Blast effect

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Atomic bomb victims

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Bombing, Aerial

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Hiroshima (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Hydrogen bomb

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nagasaki-Shi (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear warfare

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear warfare - Social aspects

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Nuclear weapons - Testing

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → War and society

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - United States

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Nuclear warfare - Social aspects

History → Atomic bomb victims

History → Hiroshima (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945

History → History

History → Nagasaki-Shi (Japan) - Bombardment, 1945

History → United States - History

Sound/audio

Sound

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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