Image of First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test

First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951

FOOTAGE number: TME3619025
Video title: First air-dropped Soviet atomic bomb test (Joe 3), Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1951
Medium: hd
Date: c. 1950 AD - c. 1965 AD (C20th AD)

Video description: HD colour footage shows the formation of a nuclear explosion in the air, from the first Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 18th October 1951. The device of RDS-3 (known by the US as Joe 3) was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. Explosion power 41.2 kilotons. Filmed on 35mm.
Photo credit: Bridgeman Images
Video keywords: 20th century / weapon / Russia / Kazakhstan / Central Asia / Asia / footage / 20th century / armament / fifties / october 18th / destruction / 50s / testing / atomic bomb / site / arms / color / mushroom cloud / russia / 1950s / atom bomb / soviet union / blast / nuclear weapon / the polygon / fireball / sky / 18 october / footage / union of soviet socialist republics / cold war / colour / silent / test / c20 / marya / explosion / ussr / rds-3 / semipalatinsk / 1951 / video / clip

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	Dimension [pixels]	File size [MB]	Duration [Seconds]
Footage	1920 × 1080 px	335.0 MB	20

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