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Robert Horn Collection (1094) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 10940000000
Title
Finding Aid
Linear Feet
0.1
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 24 January 2003
Scope and Contents
Videotape created by Robert Horn using recently declassified sources documents Operation Swordfish, circa 1962, the first and only live firing of an ASROC armed nuclear depth charge and its subsurface detonation. The tape contains film shot from the USS Anderson, one of the few ships allowed close to the detonation. The tape also includes aerial photos showing the flight, entry, explosion, mushroom lume, and base surge of the detonation.
1
Moving Images
Operation Swordfish, Nuclear ASROC Launch and Detonation, May 11, 1962
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Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=10940000000

Citation
Robert Horn Collection (1094) Finding Aid, Robert Horn Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=10940000000, Accessed 23 Jan 2026.

Pub Credit Line
10940000000, Robert Horn Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 23 Jan 2003 [Updated: 03 Feb 2003]