Nevada Nuclear Test (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Nevada Nuclear Test

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Observers look on during a nuclear test in the Nevada desert in the early 1950s, one of many filmed by a secret Hollywood studio called Lookout Mountain Laboratory. Its story is chronicled by University of Illinois professors Kevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman through a new book and website.

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Image from CinemaScope footage from 1955, restored and reconstructed by Peter Kuran. Photo courtesy the Atomic Filmmakers, Santa Clarita, California.

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