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Events animation

Scroll down to see each of these images individually.  Their animation is original to the Department of Energy History Division, now Office of History and Heritage Resources, 2003.  The images are: 

  1. Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard (courtesy the Federation of American Scientists);
  2. Painting of CP-1 going critical (courtesy the National Archives);
  3. An Alpha Racetrack inside the Y-12 Electromagnetic Plant, Clinton Engineer Works, Oak Ridge, Tennessee;

  4. Eric Jette, Charles Critchfield, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos, New Mexico (this photograph is reprinted from Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945 (Los Alamos: Public Relations Office, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ca. 1967-1971), 20);
  5. The Trinity test, July 16, 1945;
  6. Government drawing of a suggested fallout shelter design (courtesy the Federal Emergency Management Administration, via the National Archives).

 

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard

Painting of CP-1 going critical

Alpha Racetrack, Y-12 Electromagnetic Plant, Oak Ridge

Eric Jette, Charles Critchfield, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos

Trinity test, July 16, 1945

Government drawing of a suggested fallout shelter design, ca. 1957.

 

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