{"id":288282,"date":"2017-03-16T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8826bb193ec899109aed502e9cebd72b"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T22:45:00","slug":"digitization-unearths-new-data-from-cold-war-era-nuclear-test-films-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=288282","title":{"rendered":"Digitization Unearths New Data From Cold War-Era Nuclear Test Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. conducted hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 &mdash; and filmed them. A project to digitize those films has changed the analysis of the nuclear explosions themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288283,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288282\/revisions\/288283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}