{"id":21949,"date":"2017-03-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/health\/21949\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T08:00:09","slug":"digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/21949","title":{"rendered":"Digitization Unearths New Data From Cold War-Era Nuclear Test Films"},"content":{"rendered":"Posted from: <a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/03\/16\/520398342\/digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news'>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/03\/16\/520398342\/digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news<\/a> <p><\/p><p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/03\/16\/hardtack_wide-4deaa267fa7d6b0c3297e132ad3718be84e16bda.png?s=600' alt='A still from a film recently digitized by a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The film shows a 1958 explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.' \/><p>The U.S. conducted hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 \u2014 and filmed them. A project to digitize those films has changed the analysis of the nuclear explosions themselves.<\/p><p>(Image credit: Screen grab by NPR\/YouTube)<\/p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=520398342' \/><\/p><p><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted from: <a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/03\/16\/520398342\/digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news'>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2017\/03\/16\/520398342\/digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/03\/16\/hardtack_wide-4deaa267fa7d6b0c3297e132ad3718be84e16bda.png?s=600' alt='A still from a film recently digitized by a team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The film shows a 1958 explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.' \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. conducted hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 \u2014 and filmed them. A project to digitize those films has changed the analysis of the nuclear explosions themselves.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Screen grab by NPR\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=520398342' \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}