SHOT TOWER & AERIALS OF NEVADA TEST SITE FOR 1955 "OPERATION CUE" EXPERIMENT Workmen on the 500 foot shot tower at the Nevada Test Site make preparations for an atomic device to be detonated for a May 5, 1955 test. Cut to Aerial pan around of the test site and various items such as buildings, electric utilities and more that were part of the experiment. May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
AERIAL OF NEVADA TEST SITE 1955 ATOMIC BLAST EXPERIMENT Aerial pan around of the Nevada Test Site where an atomic device was detonated in 1955 during an experiment on the effects of an atomic blast on various components of civilization including power utilities, homes and buildings, vehicles and equipment. May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
ILLUSTRATION OF NEVADA TEST SITE LAYOUT FOR 1955 "OPERATION CUE" EXPERIMENT - 2 A sketch displays the layout of an experiment to study the effects of an atomic blast on power utilities and other items at a one-mile and two-mile line. additional structures were also placed on the one-and-a-third mile line highlighted here by arrows.
May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
THE ROAD TO NEVADA NUCLEAR TEST SITE & YUCCA FLAT - 1950S The Nevada Test Site in Mercury, Nevada is located deep in the desert accessible only through mountain passes. A car driving to the desert site passes Camp Desert Rock where military personell participating in atomic tests are headquartered and passes the sign for Yucca Flat close to the test site and the steel shot tower atop which an atom bomb was detonated. May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
ILLUSTRATION OF NEVADA TEST SITE LAYOUT FOR 1955 "OPERATION CUE" EXPERIMENT A sketch of the layout of "Operation Cue" to study the effects of an atomic blast on power utilities and other items shows the shot tower where the bomb was detonated while an arrow points to different test items including an electric transmission tower, a substation and a line of power poles. May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
STEEL TRANSMISSION TOWERS & ELECTRIC SUBSTATION AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE - 1955 ATOMIC BLAST EXPERIMENT In 1955 the government and interested parties conducted an experiment at the Nevada Test Site on the effects of an atomic blast. LS of a steel transmission tower one mile from the blast site then pan left to another transmission tower and electric substation 600 feet away. May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
PREPARING THE NEVADA TEST SITE FOR "OPERATION CUE" ATOMIC TEST A transmission tower at the Nevada Test Site stands proudly against a dark blue sky. Pan down from the top to bottom of the tower then over to where project personnel hurry about making preparations for a 1955 test titled "Operation Cue." May 5, 1955 - COLOR Source: Film: 16P
