Norris Bradbury
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Norris Edwin Bradbury was an American physicist who served as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradb
Bradbury's Los Alamos badge
Trinity Test, July 1945. Bradbury stands next to the partially assembled Gadget atop the test tower.
Bradbury (left) sits at a table with Leslie Groves of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (center) and Eric Jette
Operation Sandstone
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Operation Sandstone was a series of nuclear weapon tests in 1948. It was the third series of American tests, following Trinity in 1945 and Crossroads in 1946, and preceding Ranger. Like the Crossroads
Briefing on the USS Mount McKinley. Pictured are Colonel T. J. Sands, Captain James S. Russell, Dr. D. K. Froman, Brigadier General David A. Ogden, Major General J. D. Barker, Major General W. E. Kepner, Lieutenant General John E. Hull, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, Rear Admiral Francis C. Denebrink, and Brigadier General Claude B. Ferenbaugh.
A Sikorsky HO3S helicopter picks up water sample from balsa raft attached to a water sample cable
One of the three shot-towers used for the Sandstone-series of tests; unknown device.
Filters are being removed from a US Air Force Boeing B-17 drone after a flight through the radioactive cloud