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A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.

When abandoned by her G.I. husband in a remote part of southern Utah, a young German war bride must come to terms with the hostility that surrounds her and make peace not only with her past but face the winds of a new kind of war that are about to blow across the barren desert.

A tour of U.S. atomic test sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, and Alaska.

A series of nuclear bomb test conducted outside Las Vegas in the 1950s and early 60s

A civilian reporter is invited to cover an atom bomb test in Nevada, but he has misgivings about what he is about to witness.

Atomic Mom is a feature-length documentary about two mothers, an American Scientist and a Japanese Survivor, who make peace decades after the bombing of Hiroshima.

A description and evaluation of Project Sedan, part of the Atomic Energy Commission's Operation Plowshare. Plowshare sought to promote the use of nuclear weapons for peaceful purposes. In the Sedan shot, a buried 100-kiloton thermonuclear device was detonated to test the use of nuclear explosives to quickly excavate large amounts of earth and rock. The resulting explosion created a crater 1,200 feet across and 320 feet deep, and a cloud of radioactive dust.

Artist Statement: In 1953 Civil Defense carried out Operation Doorstep in conjunction with the Military's 16-kiloton nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site. Nuclear blast and thermal effects were evaluated on mannequins, automobiles, and wooden frame house of various construction to assess survivability in a nuclear blast. The homes were carefully built, and the mannequins staged and dressed for the period. Especially interesting to me were the groups the NYC based designers used to define family in both traditional and non-traditional terms. Government workers photographed before and after pictures. Using archival images, I have colorized and manipulated these images. It is a reminder of how far we have come in the last 70 years, or not. This is an exhibition of those paintings, paired with popular music of the period. This is a timely exhibit considering in 2020 the Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds to midnight -the closest symbolic point from an "apocalypse" since 1953.

The history of the Nevada Test Site, now known as the Nevada National Security Site, from its creation just after World War II to today. The site remains the primary location for the testing of nuclear weapons in the continental United States.

One of the few atomic testing operations ever to be conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense at both the Pacific Proving Grounds and the Nevada Test Site, Operation Hardtack combined balloon shots, surface shots, barge shots, underwater shots, underground shots, tower shots and missile shots.

The past accomplishments, present programs and status, and future opportunities offered by the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site. From its beginnings as a secure and remote testing ground for nuclear weapons, today it has grown into a multi-use scientific testing, training, and research facility.

A documentary about the people, activities and myths of the American desert, a place that permits experiments of all kinds. Speed, art, science, music, weapons, religion, and law - everything is put to the test here.

The atomic bomb was brought to 'America's doorstep' during an unusual series of nuclear tests conducted in the Nevada desert in the 1950s. "At Ground Zero" contains the first ever compilation of the full length official documentaries that chronicle the effects of these tests as the full fury of a nuclear bomb is demonstrated on the typical American home.

The end of the World War II heralded The Cold War--a war of paranoia and potential nuclear catastrophe. In the wreckages of missile sites, secret cities and crumbling nuclear facilities, we'll search for clues to understand how this "war" was played out.