Wartime Love, 1945
Married college girl looking in mirror surrounded by pictures of her enlisted
husband.
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Youth at a glance-1938
Safety first, 1950s
Atomic Bomb Test – Yucca Flat, Nevada 1955
Mannequins used to gauge the effects of an A-bomb on the human body for a nuclear test explosion in the desert.
(Source: 1950sunlimited)
Trinity, July 16th 1945
The first nuclear explosion in history took place in New Mexico at the Alamogordo test range in the Jornada del Muerto (journey of Death) desert.
“In that brief instant in the remote New Mexico desert the tremendous effort of the brains and brawn of all these people came suddenly and startlingly to the fullest fruition. Dr. Oppenheimer, on whom has rested a very heavy burden, grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself. For the last few seconds, he stared directly ahead and then when the announcer shouted “Now!” and there came a tremendous burst of light followed shortly thereafter by the deep growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief. Several of the observers standing back of the shelter to warch the lighing effects were knocked flat by the blast.
…All seemed to feel that they had been present at the birth of a new age — The Age of Atomic Energy — and felt their profound responsibility to help in guiding into the right channels the tremendous forces which had been unlocked for the first time in history.”
Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, describing his impressions at S-10,000 a bunker 10,000 yards south of Trinity
(Source: 1950sunlimited)
Before Trinity: The “100 Ton Test”, may 7th, 1945
preparation for the first ever nuclear explosion (Trinity) entailed detonating 108 tons of TNT stacked on a wooden platform.This was the largest instrumented explosion up to this date and known as the 100 Ton Test.
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1970 Strike Graffiti
“Graffiti such as this on the face of a USC building were duplicated all over the nation where students expressed their anger over the Kent State killings by National Guardsmen and the continuation of the Vietnam war”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Atomic Bomb testing 1946 through 1961
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Silence
