US Nuclear Weapons Tests (1945-1949)

An American warship is sailing.

US President Truman is walking down the gangway to the shore.

Truman’s car is driving along the pier, with guards standing on the running boards.

Oppenheimer R. at the command post during nuclear tests on July 16, 1945. Soldiers lie down on the ground, hiding behind the jeep.

Oppenheimer gives the command to detonate by pressing a button on the control post.

View of a nuclear explosion.

Churchill W. during a meeting.

Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M. and members of the Soviet delegation enter the conference room of the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Churchill in the conference room, Stalin talks with Truman.

Patrol at the entrance to the US military base, panorama of the base.

Loading a nuclear bomb onto an airplane.

American bombers on the runway, a bomber taking off.

View of an island in the ocean (from above).

Bomber in flight, bomb bay opens.

View of stadium stands in the USA. Truman arriving at a baseball game.

Truman throws out the first pitch.

View of a nuclear explosion, photographs of victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A Japanese child who survived the atomic bombing.

Truman in the stadium stands during a baseball game.

Churchill and Truman drive in a car along a New York street, greeting journalists from the porch of the residence.

Churchill gets out of the car.

General view of an American warship and the forward gun turret.

Unloading equipment and animals in cages from an American landing ship on Bikini Atoll.

Panorama of part of a nuclear test site, a town built on the test site, dummies in houses before the start of nuclear tests.

American warships on a campaign.

The cruiser "Sakawa", designed for testing an airborne nuclear explosion on July 1, 1946. An airplane flies over an aircraft carrier.

Cameramen in protective suits film an air burst from an airplane.

A bomber is flying, a cameraman is filming from an airplane.

View of a nuclear explosion.

Destruction of buildings at the test site under the action of a shock wave.

Destruction on the cruiser "Sakawa" and other warships that were in the zone of a nuclear explosion.