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Vintage Years

Shooting the atom: Berlyn Brixner, the first photographer in the world to film an atomic explosion, 1945.

Captured with a high speed motion picture camera, a still image of an atomic ball of fire, 1945.
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Vintage Years

Risky experiments: A photo of Louis Slotin next to the Trinity Gadget, 1945.

Canadian physicist Dr. Louis Slotin leans against the Trinity Gadget, 13th July, 1945.
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Vintage Years

The bomb that ended World War II: A photo of the Fat Man Atom Bomb, 1945.

Technicians of Project Alberta gently place the 'Fat Man' on a trolley, August, 1945
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Vintage Years

The lethal after effects of radiation exposure: A photo of the blistered hand of Harry K. Daghlian, 1945.

The first American casualty of radiation exposure.
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The pope who produced the atomic chain reaction: A photo of Enrico Fermi, 1949.

Physics Laureate Enrico Fermi at Chicago university.
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The storm before the atom bomb: A photo of two marines on Wana Ridge in Okinawa, 1945.

A Marine of the Ist Marine Division takes aim at a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, 1945
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And it took a mutiny to change policing: Why after the Mutiny of 1857, the old Kotwali system was replaced.

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The death of Charlotte Chambers during the Mutiny of 1857.

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