A Wonderful Thrill:

[Jan Klimkowski]

Jan:

The link in the first post has more information.It's an NPR story.They even did an update,and tried to locate these guys.Two of them are apparently still alive.

This footage comes from our government's archives. It was shot by the U.S. Air Force (at the behest of Col. Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, public information officer for the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs) to demonstrate the relative safety of a low-grade nuclear exchange in the atmosphere.

Keith - thank you.

The curious thing is that the clip in the OP has a caption saying "A tape recorder was present to record their experience." In 1957, there were no tape cameras, so this suggests that the event was captured on audio tape only.

However, if this is genuine film footage, accompanying the still image at your link, then we have at least two more people - maybe more - present at "Ground Zero".

i) a stills photographer;

ii) a camera operator, and possibly a camera assistant or clapper/loader.

If you examine the footage closely, the camera is locked off whilst the officers are waiting for the blast, and in its immediate aftermath. However, at c1:44 onwards in the clip, the camera shot is much closer to the soldiers and even pans to reveal all five of them in the group. Therefore there MUST have been a camera operator taking that footage, and equally exposed to the blast's effects.

I'm now veering towards this being genuine footage, edited into a piece of "We Love The Bomb" propaganda by Col. Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield and his psyop mates.

However, that is it's frame of reference: this is not a "science" film, as say many of the LSD/BZ test films purport to be.

This is pure propaganda.