Bombs and Otters

There’s such a wealth of fascinating tidbits in this National Nuclear Security Administration archive, it’s hard to know where to begin. Many of the goodies, such as this mind-blowing clip from Operation Castle, will already be familiar to students of atomic-testing history. But others are of a much rarer nature, and some were declassified just last month. The whole catalogue is worth a scan, starting with the two clips from Amchitka, an Aleutian Island where the military conducted three might u