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History 320: 6-Atomic America

History 320: 6-Atomic America. J. Robert Oppenheimer meets with General Leslie Groves at Los Alamos. The physicist Edward Teller, champion of the Hydrogen Bomb. The atomic fire ball rises over Hiroshima houses miles from ground zero. Hiroshima mushroom cloud from the air.

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History 320: 6-Atomic America

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  1. History 320: 6-Atomic America

  2. J. Robert Oppenheimer meets with General Leslie Groves at Los Alamos

  3. The physicist Edward Teller, champion of the Hydrogen Bomb

  4. The atomic fire ball rises over Hiroshima houses miles from ground zero Hiroshima mushroom cloud from the air

  5. The ruins of Hiroshima, August 1945

  6. A suburb of Nagasaki, destroyed by the blast and fires caused by the second American atomic bomb, August 9, 1945

  7. Charred remains of a young boy, Nagasaki, August 10, 1945

  8. A Hiroshima survivors drawing of the “Black Rain” (nuclear fallout) that fell following the atomic bomb blast

  9. Nagasaki survivors of the initial atomic blast

  10. Hiroshima girl suffering from radiation sickness

  11. Young girl in Nagasaki who has lost her hair from radiation sickness, September 1945

  12. U.S. Nuclear Testing • 1945-1988 conducted 1030 known nuclear tests • Total yield approximately 174 megatons or 174,000,000 tons of TNT • Combined Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts were about 30,000 tons • Thus have detonated about 6000 times more nuclear tonnage on U.S. or U.S. holdings than that used on Japan

  13. Inhabitants of the Bikini Atoll being evacuated by the U.S. Navy, 1946

  14. The Bikini Atoll test of a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, the largest tested in American history

  15. Massive crater left in Bikini Atoll by the hydrogen bomb test

  16. The Nevada Test Site

  17. American soldiers deliberately exposed to nuclear blasts

  18. Cars positioned to test the effects of an atomic blast, June 1953, Nevada Test Site

  19. Frame timber house built to study the effects of atomic blasts on civilian populations, Nevada Test Site, June 1953

  20. Map of radioactive Iodine-131 deposition from the 1953 Upshot-Knothole tests

  21. 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act • Provided congressional compensation for people who became ill because of exposure from bomb tests • 2000 expanded to include people in much of the West who: • Lived in the region from 1951-1958 • Documented proof of having leukemia, thyroid dysfunction, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, etc. • Expected to pay out $900 million in claims to thousands of victims

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