Scientific

• Silent, usually black and white
• Almost exclusively weapon explosion phenomenology and effects
• Framing speed, geometry, and sensitometry documented

Documentary

• Most are color, taken at standard speed and completed with sound tracks
• Cover a broad scope of both the pre- and post-test activities of a test series or operation
• Detonations and blast, thermal, and radiation measurement projects are covered from various distances and angles

Tutorial

• Nuclear fission and fusion and types of nuclear explosions and characteristics

Still Images

• Covering the earliest nuclear tests to underground and current simulation tests
• Mostly black and white, but some color negatives and prints of detonations, test site areas, construction, and preparation of instrumentation and structures