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Me, for scale (fat man is in the background)
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Picture 163
The Bradbury Science Museum at Central and 15th.
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Picture 164
Gotta love it... Los Alamos is run by the University of California
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Picture 165
Sorry... It wasn't Ray Bradbury, but, Norris Bradbury, former director of the laboratory
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Picture 166
Little Man life size replica
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Picture 168
close up of a model of fat man
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Picture 169
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Picture 170
Me looking "cool" next to the lifesize replica of fat man. BTW, if it isnt scary that something so small did so much.....
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Picture 171
model of a semi-modern nuclear weapon... The red bag has the tools for mounting the rocket.
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Picture 172
In the 90's (93?) the US stopped all nuclear testing and we stopped building new nuclear weapons. LANL's primary job now is stewardship... That is, making sure our existing arsenal remains effective as a weapon of mass destruction (er, I mean deterrant)
Date: 04/15/2009
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Picture 173
cant test the bombs, how do we know they work? The analogy was given of a special emergency phone... you needed to confirm it worked, but, you couldnt ACTUALLY make a call..
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Picture 174
What I was impressed by was the fact that in 1974 they COULD make a machine as powerful as a SPARC-10, which you could have for free at the Black Hole :-)
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Picture 175
Size CRAY vs. size of a SPARC-10... PS, Oracle now owns SUN...
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Picture 176
There is a corner of the museum where there is a journal where people can write there thoughts about the wisdom of nuclear weapons...
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Picture 177
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Picture 178
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Picture 179
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Picture 180
LANL is also responsible for monitoring/enforcing non-nuclear testing world wide... Here is partially how they do it...
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Picture 181
real time view looking for evidence of a possible nuclear launch/test
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Picture 182
dang I love mechanical calulators
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Picture 183
A Curta... German made, great for designing nuclear weapons and running car ralleys
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Picture 184
History of the manhatten project is easy, but, seeing things like original armpatches that people wore that worked on the Manhatten Project makes it ..... quite real.
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Picture 185
flier dropped in japan.
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