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Living in the nuclear age

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0018042 First Atomic Bomb Explosion Los Alamos - 5.30am 16th July 1945	0018041 First Atomic Bomb Explosion Los Alamos - 5.30am 16th July 1945	0014844 Underwater nuclear explosion in Bikini Lagoon 27 July 1946
0018168 1957 - A mushroom cloud from the Nevada Test site seen in in Las Vegas, 65 miles away.	imw0018752 Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands, South Pacific: Underwater Atom Bomb Test - 1946	0224332 H bomb explosion in Bikini Atoll
0224333 The red mushroom cloud of nuclear testing	0235796 Above ground Nuclear Test at Bikini Atoll	0235797 Tactical nuclear test at Yucca flats, Nevada - 1952
0247110 British Nuclear Test in Australia - 1956	0906277 The mushroom cloud of Hiroshima - 5 August 1945	RV5067-7 Explosion of the American atom bomb detonated on the atoll of Bikini - 1 July 1946
RV311-7 Mushroom cloud from the bomb on Nagasaki - 9 August 1945	RV1421-7 Nuclear test in Eniwetok (in the Marshall Islands) - 8 May 1951	RV2078-15 French nuclear testing on Mururoa's atoll (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)
RV3035-23 American thermo-nuclear tests on Bikini - 26 March 1954	0866532 Atomic Testing Nevada 1957	RV1501-6 Underwater nuclear testing of an American atom bomb in the lagoon of the Bikini atoll - 24 July 1946
0864041 US atomic testing at Christmas Island in the Pacific - 27 May 1962	0864040 Explosion of an US underwater nuclear bomb in the Bikini Atoll - 1946	0816964 Priscilla at USA Nevada Test Site - June 1957
0816962 The mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb	0816876 The worlds fifth atomic bomb, and the first to be detonated underwater - Bikini atoll - 24 July 1946	0816867 The ' Cloud Chamber ' effect observed after an underwater explosion at Bikini.
hip0004031 150-megaton thermo-nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll - 1 March 1954	0108445 The mushroom cloud of Hiroshima - 5 August 1945	0515887 Hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll - 1952
0013622 China explodes its first H Bomb - 17 June 1967	0782539 The mushroom cloud of Nagasaki - 9 August 1945	0475016 British nuclear test at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean - 1957
0768913 US nuclear test at Eniwetock Atoll - 25 July 1946	0816961 Trinity Crater, Alamogordo New Mexico after a nuclear test - 16 July 1945	0015421 Frozen in time by the atom bomb of Hiroshima - 6 August 1945
0237509 Major General Leslie R Groves and Dr J R Oppenheimer view the base of the steel tower on which first Atomic Bomb hung.	hip0004030 Hiroshima, Japan, after the dropping of the atom bomb on 6 August 1945	0035129 Hiroshima - 6 August 1945
0616601 Nagasaki - 9 August 1945	0782451 'Little Boy' atomic bomb. Type used on Hiroshima - 6 August 1945	0782500 'Fat Man' atomic bomb. Type used on Nagasaki - 9 August 1945
0515875 Col Paul W Tibbets Jr the pilot of the plane, Enola Gay, which the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - 6 August 1945	0897595 Nuclear warhead being withdrawn from the Ukraine, January 1992.	RV8116-1 US nuclear missile test - 1996
RV8115-20 US nuclear missile test from a submarine - 1996	imw0048945 Titan II Nuclear Missile at 'Titan Missile Museum', Green Valley, Arizona (last siloed titan). 1997	0702213 A soviet SS-21 tactical short-range nuclear missile is shown for the first time at the victory day parade in Red Square, Moscow, USSR. 9 May 1985
0970682 Roll out of HMS Vanguard, the first of the royal navy's trident nuclear submarines - 1992	0155352 The daily ceremony of hoisting St. Andrew's flag - on a Russian nuclear submarine - 2001	0637464 U.S. Navy's Trident nuclear powered submarine, USS Alaska - 1998
0992637 A cemetery of Soviet Nuclear Strategic Bombers	0017848 Dungeness Nuclear Power Station under construction - 1961	0238101 Chernobyl 1986 Construction work on covering ruined reactor
0364045 Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant - 1990	imw0063215 Steam billowing from nuclear power plant reactor - USA	0364052 A shielded transport container arriving at the Fuel Handling Plant, Sellafield - 1990
0445429 Nuclear power - uranium glowing in heavy water.	0776587 View of three mile island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, USA - 1979	0813458 Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station
0816874 The Conneticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant at Haddam Neck the largest operating commercial nuclear power plant in the United States	imw0096417 Cerenkov glow is radiation from nuclear reactor fuel rods underwater.	wds0011725 Nuclear power station in isolated location alongside Trawsfynydd Lake Gwynedd Wales
0949870 Construction of the Sizewell B Nuclear Reactor. Suffolk - 1990	imw0124718 Davis-Besse nuclear power cooling tower near Port Clinton, Ohio	imw0119413 Open pit uranium mine - Arlit, Niger, Africa - 1997
0061375 December 1942 - Fermi and colleagues bring the first nuclear reactor to life in Chicago, USA	imw0062156 A welcome sign to New Mexico - America's Nuclear Weapons Colony	0816968 The first Nuclear Reactor assembled under West Stands, Stagg Field, University of Chicago - 2 December 1942
0018044 A civilian guard of Los Alamos (New Mexico). Headquarters of the United States Atomic Energy Commissions's operations office.	0018156 The first nuclear reactor - constructed in a tent by the Russians during WWII.	0018008 OPS guard post at Los Alamos (Atomic Bomb Town), New Mexico , USA
0864043 Leo Szilard Participated in experiments which led to the successful manufacture of the atomic bomb.	imw0107479 Dr. Siegfried Hecker - a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory who visited a nuclear reactor in North Korea and briefed the lawmakers on his findings. 2004	0028390 Klaus Fuchs The atom traitor who sold western nuclear supremacy to Russia.
0235794 Enrico Fermi Directed experiments which led to the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.	hip0003006 Niels Bohr Developed the liquid droplet theory that permitted the understanding of the mechanism of nuclear fission	0886491 Dr Wernher Von Braun - commenting that both the USA and Russia was capable of destroying a target in either country with a nuclear missile - 22 February 1958
0146133 James Chadwick Discovered the neutron a small atomic particle which became a useful tool for bombarding atomic nuclei.	0859151 Albert Einstein Wrote letter to Franklin Roosevelt urging initiation of US atomic-bomb research (Manhattan Project)	0012675 J. Robert Oppenheimer Director of the Los Alamos lab that produced the first atomic bombs.
0015003 J. Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb.	0800876 Ernest Rutherford. Nobel prize winning chemist and physicist, who developed nuclear theory of atom.	0793355 Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn Meitner developed and introduced the term nuclear fission.
0012459 Construction of reactor cavity , Los Almos Laboratories , New Mexico	0031365 Otto Frisch (left) Developed and introduced the term nuclear fission.	0007741 Dr Harold Urey During World War II, Urey's team at Columbia University worked on a number of research programs that contributed towards the Manhattan Project.
0779198 Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer Key figures in the creation of an atomic bomb.	0701967 Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann (left) The men who split the atom.	caro005941 Radioactive hazard sign.
0776975 Deformed pig born in Chernobyl, Spring 1987, after the nuclear power plant disaster - USSR.	imw0096434 Nuclear waste storage of contaminated items, stored in drums at the Idaho National Engineering Lab in Idaho Falls, Idaho.	imw0002376 Radiation check on Three Mile Island , Pennsylvania March 1980
imw0021274 Anti-radiation pills on sale for civil defence in the USA - 2003	imw0099723 BARNWELL, SC: Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc., nuclear waste disposal facility, 1994	0545026 Prototype of Britain's first Nuclear Fallout Shelter in Kingsdown, Kent - 1962
0827803 1984 badge issued by a Danish anti-nuclear group. (Organisation for Information on Nuclear Power)	1009073 1961 Aldermaston to London H Bomb protest march led by Mr Michael Foot	0543519 Cold War civil defence class, as the need for readiness in the event of an atomic or nuclear attack, is vital - 13 January 1953
0273850 A civil defence reconnaissance unit testing for radiation in Wine Street, Bristol - 10 February 1951	0235707 Young women from Harrow strum their guitars before the start of the anti-nuclear peace march from Aldermaston to London - 31 March 1961	0018961 Michael Foot, on Nuclear Disarmament Campaign, marching down Chiswick High Road - 27 March 1967
0463032 Ralph Schoenman of Burbank, California, addressing an anti-nuclear rally in London's Trafalgar Square - 18 February 1961	0529630 London to Aldermaston - CND Easter March - 1980s	0023200 1958 - London to Aldermaston anti-nuclear peace march.
0026154 1958 - Large crowds in Trafalgar Square at the start of the CND march to Aldermaston.	0047355 Women protest at the deployment of the cruise missiles from the US military air base at Greenham Common, Berkshire. 1980s	0467579 A Greenpeace flotilla protesting against a nuclear shipment bound for the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in the UK, from Japan.
0198941 The final sinking of Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, after it was deemed unsalvagable - 2 December 1987	0020939 The replacement Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, is launched - 1989. It is the still current flagship of Greenpeace.

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