My dearest friends ;

As we all know most  of  Nuclear Test of USA was operated by  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. And luckly we were able to meet some of scientist who works in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in AGU as CTBTO Youth members. To see them how they respect and give importance to CTBTO youth members was quite comforting.

So by  Nuclear weapon physicist Greg Spriggs of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) , an initiative was launched to collect, declassify, scan and assess through footage. The records captured more than 200 atmospheric tests that were conducted. As all were shot from various angles, that resulted in nearly 10,000 films to review.

So far, approximately 6,500 have been located and 4,200 have been digitally scanned. Between 400 and 500 of the scanned films have been analyzed by Spriggs and his team. And the process is in no way succinct, so things could take a while.

Spriggs estimates it will take another two years just to scan the remaining films, and even longer for the declassification and examination process to play out. However, as the data is refined and the films are declassified, videos of these nuclear bomb tests are being made available to the public for the first time, and footage of mushroom clouds that filled the sky in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s can be found online for generations to come thanks to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The project isn't just about shedding daylight on the controversial start of the nuclear age

Spriggs said it's also about getting lost data about high-altitude test blasts, which are prohibited around the world by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty yet poorly understood.

Here is the links that you can find the footage of Nuclear test.  I hope it will be usefull to use some of those footage in our projects to promote CTBTO. And show the world how important is CTBTO. And what we really want to stop.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5

Here is the some of links that contains article about the topic.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/16/520398342/digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-16/us-releases-archives-of-desert-nuclear-tests/8359194

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