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[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]
An atomic bomb and nuclear facilities images from the late 1940s and later.
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Bomb versus Metropolis. Atomic bomb explosion superimposed over image of New York City. Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Bomb versus Metropolis. Atomic bomb explosion superimposed over image ...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00472.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Atomic Energy Experimental Explosion, Test Baker

Atomic Energy Experimental Explosion, Test Baker

Original caption: 8600.7010 Atomic Energy: Experimental Explosions Ft Leavenworth: Signal Corps Photograph Collection: Equipment File

Cloud-chamber effect observed after the underwater Baker" explosion at Bikini Atoll, from "The Effects of Atomic Weapons." Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Cloud-chamber effect observed after the underwater Baker" explosion at...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00474.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127 off Interstate 90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Photograph shows atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. No. A-58450 AC.

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Center, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-B Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 43 (left). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 34 (right). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, July 1, 1946, 9 am, Operation Crossroads. Photograph of image  taken October 3, 1950

Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, July 1, 1946, 9 am, Operation C...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00469.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

If Martians attacked the Russians, whose side would we be on?

If Martians attacked the Russians, whose side would we be on?

Public domain scan of printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General panoramic view of Hiroshima after the bomb ... shows the devastation ... about 0.4 miles ... / official U.S. Army photo.

General panoramic view of Hiroshima after the bomb ... shows the devas...

Official U.S. Army photo. Date stamped on verso: Jun 26 1946. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 43 (left). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

Atomic Shock Wave from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Atomic Shock Wave from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and Correspondence Public domain photograph - United States military, propaganda free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York] / [WKL].

[Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,...

Frame 31 of contact sheet. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Original negative not available for frames 27-31 of LC-U9-4923.

Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Photograph shows atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. No. A-58450 AC.

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building,...

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent d... More

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Effects of Atomic Heat and Radiation on Humans, Japan

Effects of Atomic Heat and Radiation on Humans, Japan

Rayburn legs. Hiroshima. Ft Leavenworth: Signal Corps Photograph Collection: Equipment File

Aerial view of Nagasaki, after the bombing, ...

Aerial view of Nagasaki, after the bombing, ...

U.S. Army photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Aerial View of the Flash of Light from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Aerial View of the Flash of Light from the Able Day Explosion over Bik...

Original caption: Atomic Fireball as Seen from the Air -- Here is the camera record of the evolution of the atomic fireball, beginning micro-seconds after the detonation of the atomic bomb. Scrapbooks, Logbooks... More

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Image of bomb burn victim. Photograph of image taken July 15, 1948

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Image of bomb b...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201207-00408.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Formation of the atomic plume column from the "Baker" test at Bikini Atoll, from "The Effects of Atomic Weapons." Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Formation of the atomic plume column from the "Baker" test at Bikini A...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00477.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Operation Doorstep Mannequins before Test

Operation Doorstep Mannequins before Test

This is a photograph of mannequins taken before the civil defense nuclear test performed with the ANNIE test in Nevada. Civil Defense Photographs

A large mushroom cloud rising over the ocean. Atomic bomb mushroom cloud explosion., Atomic Bomb Test Site
[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 34 (left). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

Aerial View of the Upward Blast from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Aerial View of the Upward Blast from the Baker Day Explosion over Biki...

Original caption: From the air the Baker Day atomic explosion took the appearance of a derby hat for a brief instant as water, spray and steam boiled skyward out of Bikini Lagoon. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photogra... More

First Stage of Mushroom Cloud from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

First Stage of Mushroom Cloud from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini...

Original caption: Rising column of water enters the first phase of characteristic mushroom. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and Correspondence

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Atomic mushroom cloud from test Baker at Bikini Atoll. Photograph of image taken July 15, 1948

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Atomic mushroom...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201207-00409.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit showing an atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll.Photograph of image taken July 15, 1948

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit showing an atomi...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201207-00423.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

X-1E Loaded in B-29 Mothership on Ramp

X-1E Loaded in B-29 Mothership on Ramp

Description (1955) The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1E airplane being loaded under the mothership, Boeing B-29. The X planes had originally been lowered into a loading pit and the launch aircraft towed over the ... More

Titan I base:  Denver, Colorado

Titan I base: Denver, Colorado

Title and date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 7699, frame 25. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Mountain Home Air Force Operations Building, On Desert Street at 9th Avenue
Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain Home, Elmore County, ID

Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Mountain Home Air Force Op...

Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio tran... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Center, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-B Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

[Bikini attol (in the Pacific ocean). Aerial view of clouds raised by test explosion of an atomic bomb]

[Bikini attol (in the Pacific ocean). Aerial view of clouds raised by ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Untitled - Drawing. Public domain image.

Untitled - Drawing. Public domain image.

Berryman Political Cartoon Collection Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial View of the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Aerial View of the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Original caption: Radio Activity Above the Clouds - To observers the atomic mushroom of the Able Day explosion over Bikini lagoon looked like a giant peach ice cream cone. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and... More

XB-35 Nose Close Up - A black and white photo of an old airplane

XB-35 Nose Close Up - A black and white photo of an old airplane

NARA B26010..30 April 46..A.M. Schwartz, Northrop chief of structures in bubble..31232AC

Civil Defense Poster - Public domain propaganda poster

Civil Defense Poster - Public domain propaganda poster

Civil Defense - General 1954 Public domain scan of printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mannequin Family in a House at Operation Doorstep, 7,500 Feet from the Blast, before the Blast

Mannequin Family in a House at Operation Doorstep, 7,500 Feet from the...

Original caption: Family scene, mannequin style, before the blast. This group is in the living room of the house 7,500 feet from ground zero. (Federal Civil Defense Administration-Operation Doorstep-Yucca Flat... More

B-36 at Walker 2 - A black and white photo of two planes flying in the sky

B-36 at Walker 2 - A black and white photo of two planes flying in the...

NARA RG342-B..Walker AFB, NM May 56 Public domain photograph of propeller aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Osca...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an emblem, symbol, round decor print, seal, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Four A-bombed bottles from Hiroshima

Four A-bombed bottles from Hiroshima

This catalog record contains preliminary data. Gift; Elin O'Hara Slavick 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:065). Was AP 1255.

[Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan]

[Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan]

Official U.S. Army Air Force photograph. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 268.

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 35 (left). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

Atomic Cloud Formation from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Atomic Cloud Formation from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Original caption: Cloud formation at peak shortly before the rapid disintegration of the mushroom shape, and as column of water starts to fall. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and Correspondence

Falling Water from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Falling Water from the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Original caption: What Goes Up Must Come Down -- Tons of water thrown up out of Bikini Lagoon by the Baker Day blast shower down on the Crossroads target fleet. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and Correspondence

Disintegration of a Colossus. Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads. Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Disintegration of a Colossus. Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, O...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00471.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1913

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1...

Creator: Science Service..Subject: Meitner, Lise 1878-1968. Hahn, Otto 1879-1968..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1913..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-3209]..S... More

Nagasaki, Japan after atomic bombing / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Nagasaki, Japan after atomic bombing / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.

Aerial view of Nagasaki, Japan after atomic bombing. Ira Clarence Eaker Collection. No. B-58582A.C.

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 35 (right). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

B-36 St Louis 2 - A black and white photo of a propeller plane

B-36 St Louis 2 - A black and white photo of a propeller plane

NARA B26114..17 Oct 48, St. Louis Air Show..USAF photo by Sgt James Trehearne.

Disintegration of a Colossus. Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads. Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Disintegration of a Colossus. Atomic bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll, O...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00470.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

[Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev make their way in the midst of a crowd] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller.

[Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev make their way in the midst of a c...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch Control Support Building, State Highway 45, Cooperstown, Griggs County, ND

Grand Forks Air Force Base, Missile Alert Facility Oscar-Zero, Launch ...

Survey number: HAER ND-12-A Building/structure dates: 1964-1965 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1973 Subsequent Work

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Artwork: "Atomic Landscape" Nagasaki, Japan 1946 - Artist: Robert Graham Catalog Number: 35.3.46

Artwork: "Atomic Landscape" Nagasaki, Japan 1946 - Artist: Robert Grah...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Atomic Cloud from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Atomic Cloud from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Original caption: Atomic Cloud Shrouds Target Fleet -- Sweeping out in all directions, this haze of water, steam spray and radio active substances obscured all but extreme outer fringes of the Crossroads Target... More

Aerial View of the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Aerial View of the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Original caption: Radio Activity Over Bikini- Towering high over Bikini lagoon and still soaring higher is the Able Day mushroom of the first atomic Crossroads explosion. Scrapbooks, Logbooks, Photographs, and ... More

[Persons picketing against the use of tax dollars for the development of nuclear weapons] / World-Telegram photo by F. Palumbo.

[Persons picketing against the use of tax dollars for the development ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Notice : instruction to patrons on premises in case of nuclear bomb attack

Notice : instruction to patrons on premises in case of nuclear bomb at...

Posters are variants in size and coloring. Satire on posted government emergency procedures. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photograph of Hiroshima after Atomic Bomb

Photographs Used In The Report Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Aerial View of the Upward Blast from the Able Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Aerial View of the Upward Blast from the Able Day Explosion over Bikin...

Original caption: It Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Heat -- The atom bomb burst, in its test of the fleet. Looking for all the world like a giant cauliflower head suspended to an ever-stretching nec... More

B-36 Carswell 2 - A black and white photo of a bunch of airplanes

B-36 Carswell 2 - A black and white photo of a bunch of airplanes

NARA B26060..USAF photo by E. W. Weinberger..Carswell, 24 April 49

[Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - members of 11th AB Div. kneel on ground as they watch mushroom cloud of atomic bomb test]

[Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - members of 11th AB Div. kneel on ground a...

Photo by USASC. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

Notice : instruction to patrons on premises in case of nuclear bomb attack

Notice : instruction to patrons on premises in case of nuclear bomb at...

Posters are variants in size and coloring. Satire on posted government emergency procedures. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Conscientious objection for taxpayers too!

Conscientious objection for taxpayers too!

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial View of the Baker Day Explosion - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Aerial View of the Baker Day Explosion - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Original caption: No Toy Balloon - At the instant the aerial camera recorded this photograph of the Baker Day explosion, water, steam, and radio active substances released in the blast were boiling skyward like... More

Atomic bomb blast at Bikini Island

Atomic bomb blast at Bikini Island

Title: Atomic bomb blast at Bikini Island.Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1946.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Anonymous gift.Accession Number: 2000.018.001

Atomic bomb cauliflower after-cloud at Bikini Atoll. Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Atomic bomb cauliflower after-cloud at Bikini Atoll. Photograph of ima...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00473.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

B-36 at Eglin 1 - A large airplane flying through a cloudy sky

B-36 at Eglin 1 - A large airplane flying through a cloudy sky

NARA RG342-B...Eglin AFB, FL 13 May 56 Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ugly Americanism (ug'-li a-mer'-i-can-ism), n. a kind of hypocrisy where the richest country in the world talks about human rights while developing a neutron bomb

Ugly Americanism (ug'-li a-mer'-i-can-ism), n. a kind of hypocrisy whe...

Poster showing man, wearing hat of Uncle Sam, with a dollar sign above, holding up buildings, with sign on theater in middle reading, "Now showing MacArthur, Patton."

Aerial view of Hiroshima after the bomb

Aerial view of Hiroshima after the bomb

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Official U.S. Army photo.

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 41 (left). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Tropospheric Antennas, Chugach National Forest, Cordova, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Boswell Bay White Alice Site, Tropospheric Antennas, Chugach National ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Headquarters Building, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Significance: Following WWII, the U.S. participated in a series of military and political events known as the Cold War. As part of its response, the U.S. government formed the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 194... More

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Center, Command Center, 901 SAC Boulevard, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Offutt Air Force Base, Strategic Air Command Headquarters & Command Ce...

Survey number: HAER NE-9-N Building/structure dates: 1954 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1962 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1970 Su... More

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of base at northern end of Maine Road, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of ba...

Significance: The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) stands as the first operational storage site constructed for the storage of atomic weapons under control of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and has ... More

Sinking of the USS Saratoga after the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini Lagoon

Sinking of the USS Saratoga after the Baker Day Explosion over Bikini ...

Original caption: Deep Six for the Sara -- Gamely flashing the Big Three on her flight deck until the last, the gallant old aircraft carrier Saratoga is shown here just before she slid beneath the radio active ... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building, Northeast of Tactical Road; southeast of Tactical Road South, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Site Control Building,...

Significance: It is believed that the plans for deployment and initiation of construction of this facility were instrumental in obtaining Soviet agreement to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and a subsequent d... More

USS Prinz Eugen as part of the Crossroads Test Fleet in Bikini Lagoon

USS Prinz Eugen as part of the Crossroads Test Fleet in Bikini Lagoon

The USS Prinz Eugen was formerly a ship of the German navy and was awarded to the United States as a war prize after World War Two. It was then used in the test fleet during the Able Day and Baker Day atomic te... More

[Fashion model Dovima wearing bikini, lying on platform near water, Montego Bay, Jamaica]

[Fashion model Dovima wearing bikini, lying on platform near water, Mo...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Similar image published in: Harper's bazaar, May 1947. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 651. Original negative no. F1214-11.

Image and diagram of the "'Trinity" test at Alamogordo, from "The Effects of Atomic Weapons." Photograph of image taken October 3, 1950

Image and diagram of the "'Trinity" test at Alamogordo, from "The Effe...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00475.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Variable Angle Launcher, CA State Highway 39 at Morris Reservior, Azusa, Los Angeles County, CA

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Variable Angle Launcher, CA State Hig...

Significance: Morris Dam Test Facility (MDTF) was built at the Morris Dam Reservoir for the purpose of obtaining basic hydrodynamic data for use in design and development of Naval Ordinance, particularly air-to... More

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll]

[Mushroom cloud with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear w...

In album: Operation Crossroads, p. 42 (right). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965. Forms part of: Ira Eaker papers, 1917-1989 (bulk 1942-1945) (Library of Congress).

B-36 Open Bomb Bays 2 - A black and white photo of a plane flying in the sky

B-36 Open Bomb Bays 2 - A black and white photo of a plane flying in t...

NARA 26047..30 Sep 48 Public domain photograph of a bomber aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Image of atomic mushroom cloud. Heading: "Peacetime research led to wartime development." Photograph of image taken July 15, 1948

US Atomic Energy photographs in Life Magazine Exhibit. Image of atomic...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201207-00407.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Warhead Handling Building, Within Exclusion Area, Nekoma, Cavalier County, ND

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Warhead Handling Building, Wit...

Significance: The building provided temporary storage for Sprint warhead sections and space for checkout and temporary storage of Spartan warhead sections prior to their installation on the missiles within thei... More

World peace tax fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war will be forced to pay $2.3 billion.

World peace tax fund People morally opposed to paying taxes for war wi...

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Road T512, south of Exit 116 off I-90, Interior, Jackson County, SD

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, Launch Facility, On County Roa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of base at northern end of Maine Road, Limestone, Aroostook County, ME

Loring Air Force Base, Weapons Storage Area, Northeastern corner of ba...

Significance: The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) stands as the first operational storage site constructed for the storage of atomic weapons under control of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the Cold War, and has ... More

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