SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (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. 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 the National 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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