The beginning of the nuclear confrontation between the USSR and the USA (1945-1953)

American family on a walk.

Serving a turkey dish.

American family at the table.

Family on a picnic.

Family at home near the radio.

The head of the family asks to keep quiet.

Americans at home sitting near the radio.

American miners, housewives, elderly people waiting for a signal on the radio.

The face of Vice Admiral Blandy, commander of the nuclear bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in July 1946, during his speech.

Map with a diagram of the delivery of a nuclear weapon to Bikini Atoll.

Palm trees on the shore of the Pacific Ocean in the Marshall Islands.

Local residents waving their hands in greeting.

Tropical landscape.

Everyday life of local residents.

American military conducts an explanatory talk with local residents.

Faces of local residents.

American military among local residents, conducting documentary filming with the participation of local residents.

An American officer conducts an explanatory talk with the help of an interpreter, answers questions from one of the local residents.

Local residents talking at a bungalow.

Faces of an American officer and an interpreter.

Face of a laughing girl.

Local residents sitting on the sand awaiting evacuation.

Arrival of American landing craft to evacuate people from the nuclear testing zone.

One of the landing craft with evacuees on board at sea.

An American soldier at his post at the entrance to the danger zone.

Face of an American communications officer.

Airplane with a nuclear weapon on board in flight, bomb bay doors opening.

Sailors on the deck of an American ship squat and close their eyes during the release of a nuclear weapon.

Observers put on protective glasses.

View of Bikini Atoll during the explosion (top).

Explosion on Bikini Atoll.

Map of Europe (animation).

Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M. on the tribune of the mausoleum on May 1, 1947. View of Red Square during the May Day demonstration (top).

Stalin on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Meetings of servicemen of the US and USSR armies in Germany in May 1945. Soviet and American soldiers during joint recreation and events.

Handshake of the allies.

Poster dedicated to the brotherhood in arms of the USSR and the USA. Map of Europe with the countries of the socialist camp highlighted.

Fragment of an American propaganda cartoon.

US citizens are arrested for anti-American activities in 1947-1948, taken away from their workplaces.

Confiscation of newspapers in a printing house.

Distribution of coffee on the street.

Pro-Soviet demonstrations in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.

Explosion of a model of the Statue of Liberty (staged scene).

Fragment of an American propaganda anti-Soviet cartoon.

A man moves the clock back one part.

Marching American soldiers (fragment of a propaganda film).

Two Americans read a newspaper on the street.

Explosion of a Soviet atomic bomb in August 1949. Reports of the Soviet atomic bomb in American newspapers.

A man reads a newspaper on the street.

Senator Brian McMahon delivers a speech into a microphone about the new "Atomic Energy Act" of 1946. A teacher at one of the American schools blows a whistle during a lesson on protection against a nuclear explosion.

After the signal, the students lie down under their desks.

The teacher blows a whistle, a demonstration of an individual anti-nuclear shelter.

A man dresses a child in a protective suit.

A demonstration of a children's protective suit with a gas mask.