Nuclear Collection

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

General Elecric Robot Spinning Hula Hoop
(Original Caption) Schenectady, NY: Developed by the General Electric engineering lab

Van De Graff Accelerator; Nuclear Machin
(Original Caption) The Van de Graff accelerator: It produces beams of protons, neutrons or alpha particles at up to 3 billion electron volt energies

Ernest Orlando Lawrence @ Control Panel
(Original Caption) Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist and inventor of the Cyclotron. Awarded the 1939 Nobel prize for physics. Undated photograph

Enrico Fermi
(Original Caption) Enrico Fermi (1901-1959), Italian physicist. Ca. 1940s-1950s. Photograph. BPA 2 #4326

Oppenheimer And L.Groves Look At Base
(Original Caption) 9/12/1945-Carrizozok, NM: Here are Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, l, University of California, and Maj. Gen

Major General Groves With Senators McMahon and Vandenberg
(Original Caption) 11/28/1945-Washington, D.C.: Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Atomic Bomb Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI) and Major General Leslie Groves

Scientist Work on Atomic Research
(Original Caption) 1946-Oakridge, TN- The chemical extraction of Radioactive species in quantity requires a very special type of labratory (a "hot laboratory") and equipment

Portrait of Dr. Lise Meitner
Lisa Meitner, Austrian-Jewish scientist who is credited with being one of the first to do research on the development of the atomic bomb, is pictured shortly after her arrival by plane in New York

Man Using a Geiger Counter to Check for Radioactive Particles
(Original Caption) 12/27/1947-Before leaving an active area, each worker must check his hands and feet on the Geiger Counter, to guard against contamination

Geiger Counter
(Original Caption) A view of the amplifier and tube mechanism of the Geiger Counter, an instrument used to detect and measure levels of radioactivity

Officials Look At Bikini Lagoon Model
(Original Caption) 3/1946-Washington, D.C.: The Joint Army-Navy Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Committee meets with Army and Navy Joint Task Force One Staff heads to discuss the Bikin Atomic Group

Women March In Anti Bomb Demonstration
(Original Caption) 1962-London, England: Heading a procession of women on an anti-bomb march through the ice and slush of London, are - left to right: Mrs

Family Poses in Field
(Original Caption) A posed picture of the nuclear family in a field. The parents hold their son and daughter's hands. Ca. 1950-1960

F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover Outside FBI Building
(Original Caption) 02/06/1950-Washington, D.C.: Portrait of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover outside the FBI building in Washington

Boy Playing with Toy Atomic Laboratory
(Original Caption) 3/6/1950-New York, NY-: With youngsters like eight-year-old Stefan Olsen of New York getting an early start with the mysteries of atomic energy, using this toy atomic laboratory

Composite Of Harry Gold After Arrest
(Original Caption) 5/24/1950-Philadelphia, PA: Harry Gold, 39-year-old Philadelphia man arrested last night on espionage charges

Proton Colliding with Nuclear Particle
(Original Caption) 11/9/1950- This is a photograph of the most powerful collision yet recorded of a proton (the stripped nucleus of a hydrogen atom) striking a nuclear particle

Sketch of Nuclear Reactor
(Original Caption) 11/22/1950- FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR. This is a sketch of the first nuclear reactor which was erected in 1942 in the West Stands section of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago

General View Of Cosmotron Construction
(Original Caption) 5/21/1952-Upton, New York: Latest construction photo of the giant cosmotron being built at the Brookhaven Nat'l Laboratory

Engineer Hyman Rickover with Model of Nuclear Submarine
(Original Caption) 7/12/1952- Washington, DC- Captain Hyman G

Radiation Detection Device
(Original Caption) 8/5/1952-New York, NY: If an atomic bomb should fall and you are somewhere about, this little gadget, called an atometer, is for you

10Th Anniversary Of The Atomic Age
(Original Caption) 12/02/1952-Chicago, IL.: The 10th birthday of the atomic age was observed today in the University of Chicago Squash Court where man first controlled the release of nuclear energy

Overhead Of Truck Full Of Uranium Ore
(Original Caption) 1954-Utah: A truck loads uranium ore near the entrance of Charles A. Steen's Mi Vida mine

The USS Nautilus Being Launched
The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched into the Thames River after being christened by Mamie Eisenhower

Illustration of a Man in a Foxhole Fallout Shelter
(Original Caption) 2/16/1955-Chicago, IL- The safest place for persons caught in H-bomb blast is below the earth's surface, advises atomic scientist Ralph E. Lapp

Man Holding Instrument Near Mannequin
(Original Caption) 4/27/1955-Yucca Flat, Nevada: "Operation Cue

Family Of Mannequins In Living Room
(Original Caption) 4/27/1955-Yucca Flat, Nevada: "Operation Cue

Exterior View Of Reactor Building
(Original Caption) 5/24/1955-Lemont, IL: Exterior view of the reactor building at the Argonne National Laboratory

View Of Top Of Nuclear Power Station
(Original Caption) 5/25/56-Calder Hall, England: Here is a veiw of the top of one of the atomic piles at Britain's nuclear power station at Calder Hall

Concrete Dome To Be Used For Nuclear She
(Original Caption) 6/25/1957-Las Vegas, NV- This dome-type structure of reinforced concrete may be the pattern for shelters of survival in the atomic age

Fords Futuristic Nuclear Power Car
A scale model of the Nucleon, an atomic-powered concept car developed by the Ford Motor Company

French Car On Stand At Show
(Original Caption) 3/10/1958-Paris, France: French auto designers presented a new revolutionary car here March 8th

Newlywed Couple In Fallout Shelter
(Original Caption) 7/14/1959-Miami, FL: Setting up housekeeping in an underground bomb shelter

Walkers For A Sane Nuclear Policy
(Original Caption) 8/9/1959-New York, NY: Hiroshima Bombing anniversary. "No more Hiroshima" is the theme of a walk held by the West Side Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy

Military Volunteers Relaxing in Bomb Shelter
A group of volunteers from the United States armed forces relax on bunk beds in a nuclear bomb shelter for visiting reporters at Parks Air Force Base in California

Gar-11 Nuclear Falcon & Other Missiles
(Original Caption) 4/25/1960-Tucson, Arizona- Standing at attention is the new, radar-guided, GAR-11 Nuclear Falcon, (L), the U.S

Gar-11 Nuclear Falcon & Other Missiles
(Original Caption) 4/25/1960-Tucson, Arizona- Standing at attention is the new, radar-guided, GAR-11 Nuclear Falcon, (L), the U.S

Africans Carry Signs Protesting Nuclear Weapons
(Original Caption) 9/6/1960-Accra, Ghana- Africans carrying anti-nuclear weapon banners protest here, Sept. 2nd, in a fresh outbreak of anger against the proposed French nuclear test in the Sahara

Anti-Nuclear Demonstrators
(Original Caption) 10/28/1961-New York, NY: "NO TESTS- EAST OR WEST." A group of anti-nuclear test demonstrators, part of a larger group some 1, 500 strong

Two Japanese On Steps Of City Hall
(Original Caption) 4/9/1962-New York, NY: Photo shows two young citizens of Hiroshima, Japan, survivors of the 1945 atom bomb blast

Kennedy Giving Ed Teller Award
(Original Caption) 12/3/1962-Washington, DC: President Kennedy presents the Enrico Fermi Award to Dr

Peace Activists March to the White House
Several hundred supporters of the "Women Strike for Peace" group, who urge U.S

Physicists at Work
(Original Caption) 3/21/1963-New York, NY- Left to right: Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, Dr. Y.K. Lee and L. W. Mo, her associates, conducting experiments

Nuclear Treaty Signing in Moscow
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and United States Secretary of State Dean Rusk hold the last of their discussions before the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow

Edward Teller at Hearing
(Original Caption) 8/20/1963: Washington, DC: Dr. Edward Teller, so-called Father of the H-Bomb, is shown as he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today

Edward Teller Speaking At Podium
(Original Caption) 8/21/1963-Washington, DC: Dr. Edward Teller, called the "Father of the H-bomb, " is shown as he addressed the National Press Club today

McNamara, Mike Mansfield, President Kennedy
(Original Caption) 9/9/1963-Washington

Building Vessel For Nuclear Reactor
(Original Caption) 11/27/1963-West Allis, WI: Resembling a huge bottle, a nuclear reactor vessal is machined in the West Allis, WI. shop of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company

Right Rudder of Submarine
(Original Caption) 10/10/1964 Washington, DC-: This photograph, released by the Navy 10/1, is an overhead view of the top side rudder of the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher

Nuclear Reactor Complex
(Original Caption) 1978-Richland, WA- The Hanford Atomic Reservation, with 22, 000 area residents depending on it for their jobs, remains a stronghold of pro-nuclear sentiment

Man In Nuclear Protection Gear Protestin
(Original Caption) 3/28/1980-Middletown, PA: At 4 A.M

Atomic Symbol and Flower

Hiroshima
6th August 1955: A view of bomb damaged areas of Hiroshima, ten years after the Atomic bomb was dropped on the city

Wilson Cloud Chamber
circa 1912: A photograph of Charles Thomson Rees Wilsons cloud track apparatus, otherwise known as the Wilson Cloud Chamber of 1912, used for studying charged particles and radioactivity

SS-N-20 Russian nuclear missile, digital illustration

Illustration of neutron hitting Uranium-235 nucleus, nucleus becoming unstable and splitting, releasing energy and neutrons (nuclear fission)

Atomic Damage
14th October 1945: Atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Atomic bomb exploding, front view

Diagram showing size of stars from white dwarfs to super giants, digital illustration

Polaris A3 American nuclear missile, digital illustration

Flow chart showing how a nuclear power station produces electricity

Illustration of nucleus of Hydrogen-2 and nucleus of Hydrogen-3 fusing and forming nucleus of Helium-4, expelling a neutron (nuclear fusion)

Illustration of split atoms and neutrons

Smoke erupting from cooling towers of a nuclear power plant, Grafenrheinfeld, Schweinfurt, Lower Franconia, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Atomic Cooling Tower
16th October 1956: Water cascading down at the bottom of the giant cooling towers at the worlds first full-scale atomic power station at Calder Hall, Cumberland. (Photo by L)

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Nuclear Testing
Operation Hurricane, Britains first atomic weapons detonation, takes place off Trimouille Island, in the Monte Bello Islands, 3rd October 1952. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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