The Day the Sun Blowed Up Narrated by James Cameron
On 16 July 1945, at 5.30 in the morning, the world's first atom bomb was experimentally exploded in the desert of New Mexico. This is the story of the fateful days of secret preparation for the test. It is told by some of the scientists and soldiers who were intimately concerned, and is illustrated by previously unseen colour film. The story is also told by some of the local inhabitants for whom the birth of the nuclear age came as a total and alarming surprise. ' I heard the explosion and thought something had blowed up in the yard out in front of the store. I went out and there was a man just standing there looking kind of dumbfounded and I asked him, "What blowed up out here?" And he said, " Look over yonder," (looking to the east of us) "the sun blowed up!
Film editor MIKE APPELT Producer STEPHEN PEET