H-Bomb - 1953| Movietone Moment | 7 January 2021

On this day in 1953, President Harry Truman announced the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. Here is a British Movietone report about the first hydrogen bomb experiment carried out by the United States in the Pacific. Pictures just released of the first Hydrogen Bomb experiment held by the United States in the Pacific, show the effects of the tremendous explosion. With total destruction within a radius of three miles, the centre of any city in the world could be obliterated. (Material shot Nov. 52. Released March 1954). Cut story - KS. Mushroom cloud. Shot of map showing the Islands. Mix to aerial shots of the sea. Shot of the American ship “Estes“. The operation was called “Operation Ivy“. Shot of bough cutting water. Aerial view of the Marshal Islands. VG. Various shots of special building erected on Eniwetok Atoll. Shots of various measuring devices being fitted by scientists. Various shots of apparatus. Interior shots of high ranking officials. Various shots dials, gauges etc. Shots of officer