At the height of the Cold War in 1965, China had just tested an atomic bomb. The CIA wanted to spy on Chinese missile tests ...

A lost nuclear device in the Himalayas, filled with plutonium from a secret 1965 CIA-India mission to spy on China, ...

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

Washington’s gamble on metallic fast reactors and the use of plutonium in them could turn bomb metal into centuries of power.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The discovery of nuclear fission in ...