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Archived US Nuclear Bomb Test Footage Serves As Reminder Of Their Destructive Power
CBS Sunday Morning investigates what we can learn from old explosion footage, and the race to preserve it digitally before it decays.

A nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945, at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Image Credit: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com
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