Until recently, armies used animals to succeed on the battlefield. Horses were used for transportation, dogs for protection and detection, and birds for communications. With the introduction of chemical warfare in World War I, soldiers had to protect themselves and their animals in order to survive and fight.
This was clipped from a 1966 film from the People's Republic of China, with English narration. The film shows the emergence of China as a nuclear power and describes the efforts of the Chinese in preparation and conduction of atomic and thermo-nuclear tests in the mid-1960s.
