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Scroll down to see each of these images individually. The
images are:
1. Fission (this graphic is adapted from a graphic originally
produced by the
Washington State Department of Health; the modifications are original to the History Division, now
Office of History and Heritage Resources, 2003);
2. Fat Man (plutonium bomb), August 1945 (courtesy the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers (via theNational Archives));
3.
F Reactor Plutonium Production Complex
Hanford, Washington, 1945;
4. A Cockroft-Walton machine at Los Alamos, New Mexico
(courtesy the
Los Alamos National Laboratory; it is reprinted in John F. Hogerton, ed.,
"Cockroft-Walton Machine,"
The Atomic Energy Deskbook (New York: Reinhold
Publishing Corporation, 1963, prepared under the auspices of
the Division of Technical Information, U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission), 102);
5. A house blown apart by an atomic test in Nevada; the
photograph is courtesy REECO, Bechtel Nevada; it is reprinted
from
Terrence R. Fehner and F. G. Gosling,
Origins of the Nevada Test Site (Washington:
History Division, Department of Energy, December 2000), 85;
6. Y-12 uranium enrichment area, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1944
(courtesy the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory);
7. The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise spelling out on
deck what makes their ship go. Enterprise was the
world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and sailing
alongside the ship are U.S.S. Long Beach and U.S.S.
Bainbridge, both of which are also nuclear-powered
(photograph courtesy the Department of the Navy (via the
National Archives). It
was taken by "William, J., PHC").
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