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Boy Scouts (Henry King, Bill Trimby, Bob Linsay), June 28, 1946
Following the conclusion of World War II, American citizens were filled with a sense of national pride and moral weightiness. In this photograph, similar feelings are evoked in the dramatic framing of the three Boy Scouts with their wind-swept United…
Girl Scouts March in Front of the X-10 Facility During Their Visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 9, 1951
Designed and built in ten months, X-10 was a graphite reactor that used neutrons emitted in the fission of uranium-235 to convert uranium-238 into a new element: plutonium-239, the highly radioactive substance that was the key to the development of…
Graphite Reactor East Landing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, January 2, 1952
The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's…
'The Beginning or the End," Grove Theater, 1947
“The Beginning or the End,” a docudrama about the development of the first atomic bombs, was a big attraction at the Grove Theater in Oak Ridge in March 1947.
