Historic Videos

These videos are of key moments during the atomic age.


Trinity Test Preparations

Video of the assembly of the Gadget.

Trinity Test

Footage of the first nuclear test

Little Boy

Footage of the Little Boy bomb on Tinian.

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Video of the atomic bomb detonating over Hiroshima

Damage to Hiroshima

Footage of the atomic bomb damage to Hiroshima

Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima

An eyewitness account by Jesuit priest Father John Seimes, who had been on the outskirts of Hiroshima

Fat Man

Footage of the Fat Man bomb on Tinian.

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Video of the atomic bomb detonating over Nagasaki

Damage to Nagasaki

Footage of the atomic bomb damage to Nagasaki

“Now I become death...”

J. Robert Oppenheimer's reflections of the first atomic bomb test.