Daily Mail: Laboratory releases hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear test films taken at the height of the Cold War at top-secret US testing grounds
* The Lawrence Livermore National Library in California released 250 new films
* Researchers at the institute painstakingly restored many of the decaying clips
* Scientists from the LLNL are also taking new data reading from the old footage
* Gregg Spriggs, head of the restoration, found a host of new data in the films
* The footage shows explosions from Operations Hardtack, Teapot and Dominic
A US laboratory has released hundreds of previously-unseen nuclear test videos in one of the biggest declassifications of Cold War footage in history.
The footage, released by the Lawrence Livermore National Library (LLNL) in California, shows hundreds of high-powered explosions which took place from 1945 to 1962 at top secret testing grounds in the US.
According to the labratory, they have spent the last five years painstakingly restoring the remarkable footage - clips from which have now been posted on YouTube.
The latest declassification on Thursday is the largest batch of films ever released by the lab, with over 250 films included in the collection.
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WNU Editor: I have only met one person who witnessed an above-ground nuclear test. He told me years ago that seeing a nuclear explosion does not compare to seeing it on a video.
