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Houses and city roads in rubble

A photograph of a young David Bohm during the late 1930's.

Japanese Americans made every effort to lead normal lives in the Puyallup Assembly Center. They cultivated gardens, engaged in different types of activities, and played games such as ping-pong.

Helen Gladys (Emery) Aoki and Gunjiro Aoki, March 1909.

In September 1945, many participants returned to the Trinity Test site for news crews. Here Oppenheimer and Groves examine the remains of one the bases of the steel test tower.

Political Cartoon from 1921 showing disapproval of immigration to the United States.

Photograph of the 1946 colloquium on the Super at Los Alamos. Front row left to right: Norris Bradbury, John Manley, Enrico Fermi and J.M.B. Kellogg. Second row left to right: Colonel Oliver G. Haywood, unknown, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman,…

Portrait photograph of Major General Leslie Groves in full dress uniform after he was promoted to Major General in March of 1944.

Newspaper article headline reads, 'Immigration Bill is Signed by President; Japanese Ban Becomes Effective on July 1.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

Enrico Fermi standing in front of nuclear energy technology he helped develop.

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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

View of barracks that housed Japanese internee's at the Puyallup Assembly Center (Camp Harmony).

Japanese Americans, escorted by armed soldiers, walk down the Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, WA at the beginning of their forced removal to the Manzanar Assembly Center in the California desert.

Cartoon shows the world as a globe being squeezed in a vise made up of two bombs, one labeled "Russia's Bombs" and the other "U.S.' Bombs." Reflects the fear of a world-wide atomic war that developed after the revelation in September 1949 that the…

"Cartoon shows two pairs of hands grasping for an Atom Bomb, one with a sleeve bearing a star and a cufflink reading "US," the other with a hammer and sickle. Probably drawn after President Truman announced in September 1949 that the Soviet Union had…

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A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

A Hanford Site worker wearing ionization chambers and a film badge during Manhattan Project plutonium production.

Timber crew from the Clemons Logging Company, on the Chehalis River east of Aberdeen. By 1935, Washington's timber workers went on strike for better conditions and the legal recognition of their union. The timber workers' strike faced an often…

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Farming was extremely labor-intensive and still relied heavily on human and horse-power. An organized harvesting/threshing team in the 1920's required 120 men and 320 mules and horses. Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened. Few farmers…