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Operation Doorstep, Civil Defense Study, 1953
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Title:
Operation Doorstep, Civil Defense Study, 1953
Caption:
Basement shelter with mannequins. Operation Doorstep was a civil defense study conducted by the Federal Civil Defense Administration in conjunction with Upshot-Knothole Annie. It studied the effect of the nuclear blast on two wooden frame houses, fifty automobiles and eight bomb shelters designed for residential use. The homes in the study were constructed in such a way as to minimize the thermal effects of Annie, with an eye towards determining if, in the absence of fire, the basement of the closer home (3,500 feet from the hypocenter) might shelter its occupants, while the second (at 7,500 feet) could remain standing. Both homes performed as expected under the conditions of their construction. Upshot-Knothole Annie was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. It took place at the Nevada Test Site on March 17, 1953, and was nationally televised. The live TV coverage was captured at the studio, presumably using at-the-time new magnetic tape sound technology, so it is a rare record of the sound an actual atomic bomb makes.
Credit:
Album / Science Source / NNSA/Nevada Field Office
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Image size:
2578 x 3900 px | 28.8 MB
Print size:
21.8 x 33.0 cm | 8.6 x 13.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1953 • 20 XX TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20TH CENTURY • 20TH • A-BOMB • AMERICA • AMERICAN • ARMS • ATOM BOMB • ATOMIC BOMB RESEARCH • ATOMIC BOMB TEST • ATOMIC BOMB • ATOMIC DEVICE • ATOMIC RESEARCH • ATOMIC TESTING • ATOMIC WEAPON • BASEMENT SHELTER • BASEMENT • BIZARRE • BLAST • BLASTING • BOMB TOWER • BOY • BW • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CHILD • CHILDREN • CIVIL DEFENSE STUDY • CIVILIAN REPORTERS • CIVILIAN VIEWING • DETONATE • DETONATING • DETONATION • DUMMIES • DUMMY • EVENT • EVENTS • EXPLODING • EXPLOSION • EXTRAS • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION • FEMALE • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HUNDRED YEARS WAR • IMPORTANT • LAY FIGURE • MALE • MAN • MANIKIN • MANNEQUIN • MEN • NEVADA TEST SITE • NEVADA • NOTABLE • NTS • NUCLEAR BOMB RESEARCH • NUCLEAR BOMB TEST • NUCLEAR BOMB • NUCLEAR DEVICE • NUCLEAR TESTING • NUCLEAR WEAPON • ODD • OPEN SHOT • OPERATION DOORSTEP • OPERATION UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE ANNIE • OPERATION UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE • PECULIAR • PHOTO • PHOTOGRAPH • QUIRKY • RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT • RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT • RESEARCH • SCIENCE • SIEGE • SITE • STRANGE • TAILOR'S DUMMY • TECHNOLOGICAL • TECHNOLOGY • TOWER DROP • TOWER SHOT • TWENTIETH CENTURY • UNITED STATES • UNUSUAL • UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE ANNIE • UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE • US • USA • WACKY • WALK-ONS • WAR • WARFARE • WARS • WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION • WEAPON • WEAPONARY • WEAPONRY • WEAPONS • WELL-KNOWN • WMD • WOMAN • WOMEN
