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Leó Szilárd and Albert Einstein, 1939
Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James Bryant Conant, Karl Compton and Alfred Loomis at UC Berkeley, March 1940
Housing at Los Alamos
Hans Bethe and Enrico Fermi Exploring
ID Photo of Klaus Fuchs
Fuller Lodge of the Los Alamos Site, 1942
Enrico Fermi on a Hike with Friends
Robert Oppenheimer
Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi and I.I. Rabi
Main Gate to Los Alamos, 1943
James Chadwick and Leslie Groves
ID Badges at Los Alamos, 1943
Emilio Segrè, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, H.H. Staub, Victor Weisskopf, Erika Staub and Elfriede Segrè on a Sunday Hike
Emilio Segrè Group
Alpha I Calcutron Racetrack at Oak Ridge
Otto Frisch Playing the Piano at Los Alamos
Fat Man Shake Test, 1945
Trinity Test Base Camp, July 1945
Louis Slotin with the Trinity Gadget, July 1945
Robert Oppenheimer Overseeing the Final Assembly of the Trinity Gadget, 13 July 1945
Trinity Gadget at Base of Tower, 14 July 1945
Norris Bradbury with the Assembled Trinity Gadget in Tower, 15 July 1945
Trinity Test, 16 July 1945
Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves Examining the Remains of the Trinity Test Tower, July 1945
Post inspired by "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. All photos from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Flickr account except where otherwise noted.
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