Lawrence Livermore just cleared a whole lot of boom
On Tuesday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released 63 rare, restored, and declassified nuclear test films, saved from decomposing on fragile nitrate film. They include Operations Teapot, Dominick, Nutmeg, Hardtack, Plumbob, and others. They are short but powerful.
“For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify these decomposing films. The goals are to preserve the films’ content before it’s lost forever, and provide better data to the post-testing-era scientists who use computer codes to help certify that the aging U.S. nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective.”