MOST IMPORTANT (ANIMATION)
Resources: Photo Gallery

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

1. The Trinity mushroom cloud, July 16, 1945 (click here for more information on this photograph); 
2. Leslie Groves and Robert Oppenheimer (courtesy the Department of Energy); 
3. F Reactor Plutonium Production Complex  area at Hanford.  The photograph was reproduced from Henry DeWolf Smyth, Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945).  The Smyth Report was commissioned by Leslie Groves and originally issued by the Manhattan Engineer District.  Princeton University Press reprinted it in book form as a "public service" with "reproduction in whole or in part authorized and permitted";
4. A diagram of a beryllium atom (this is a combination of graphics that were originally produced by the Washington State Department of Health (the nucleus) and the Environmental Protection Agency (everything else).  The combination of the two graphics, the labels, and other customizations, are original to the History Division, now Office of History and Heritage Resources, 2003).

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