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Special topics animation

Scroll down to see each of these images individually.  Their animation is original to the History Division, now Office of History and Heritage Resources, 2003.  The images are: 

  1. Berlin Wall, 1962 (courtesy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO);
  2. Earth from Apollo 17 (courtesy the Environmental Protection Agency, via the National Archives);
  3. Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin (courtesy the Department of Energy, via the National Archives; the National Archives identifies the man as Ernest Rutherford, but other sources agree that the man is Hahn);
  4. An atom of beryllium (the graphic is a combination of modified graphics that were originally produced by the Washington State Department of Health (the nucleus) and the Environmental Protection Agency (everything else); the combination of the two graphics, the labels, and other customizations are original to the History Division, 2003);
  5. A Marine at Okinawa, May 10, 1945 (courtesy the United States Marine Corps, via the National Archives);
  6. A propaganda poster entitled "Silence Means Security" (courtesy the Office of Government Reports, United States Information Service, Division of Public Inquiry, Bureau of Special Services, Office of War Information, via the National Archives); and
  7. Workers at Hanford, Washington sending money home (reproduced from the photo insert in F. G. Gosling, The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, October 2001)).

Cold War: West Berliner talks to the east, Berlin Wall, November 1962.

International history: Earth (from Apollo 17)

Pre-War history: Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin

Science and technology: an atom (of beryllium)

Second World War: Marine crossing "Death Valley" under fire, Okinawa, May 10, 1945.

Secrecy: propaganda poster, "Silence Means Security"

Social history: Hanford workers sending money home.

 

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