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nuclear test veterans - LABRATS

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

Operation Hurricane

A documentary film about Operation Hurricane, the first of Britain's atomic weapons tests, which was conducted off the Montebello Islands, Australia in October 1952

Operation Totem

Film produced by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, documenting Operation Totem, a series of atomic weapons trials conducted in Australia in 1953.

Operation Buffalo

A report from the army's perspective of Operation Buffalo, a series of four British atomic bomb blasts in the Australian desert.

Operation Grapple

Film produced by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, documenting Operation Grapple, a series of atomic weapons trials conducted between 15 May and 19 June 1957 on Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Operation Grapple X Explosion 1957

Trials film with commentary featuring the detonation of Operation Grapple X on 8 November 1957 at Christmas Island in the South Pacific.

Operation Grapple Y Explosion 1958

Trials film with commentary featuring the detonation of Operation Grapple Y on 28 April 1958 at Christmas Island in the South Pacific.

Operation Grapple Y

Film produced by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, documenting Operation Grapple Y, a British atomic weapons trial conducted on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1958, as part of Britain's programme to develop a hydrogren bomb.

Operation Grapple Z

Film produced by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, documenting Operation Grapple Z, a series of British atomic weapons trials conducted on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, in the summer of 1958.

The effects of Atomic Weapons on Troops in the Field

The film first describes using diagrams the main effects of flash, heat, blast and radiation from a nuclear bomb of 20 kilotons detonated at 2000 ft above ground.

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