Persimmon - A Nuclear Physics Experiment

Duration: 16 min

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explains that for several years the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory has used intense bursts of neutrons produced by underground detonations of nuclear explosives to perform a variety of nuclear physics experiments. Discusses the experiments and describes the nuclear detonations and the collapse and cratering of the ground above it.

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