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How do humans make sense of the bomb? — a thread of every picture in this photo essay by Robert Del Tredici. ow.ly/zxKL50GnJTh

This glass sphere, 3.2 inches across, is the exact size of the plutonium ball in the Nagasaki bomb.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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A model of the uranium atom at the American Museum of Science and Energy, Los Alamos, New Mexico on June 11, 1982.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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A monument to the splitting of the atom in Chelyabinsk City, Russia on May 18, 1992.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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A replica of the Hiroshima atomic bomb at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC on June 26, 1981.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Yoshito Matsushige, the only photographer known to have taken pictures inside Hiroshima the day the A-bomb exploded.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Photos by Matsushige, the only person known to have taken photos in Hiroshima on the day of the attack.
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Denver artist Barbara Donachy’s installation, Amber Waves of Grain, depicts in one glance the 25,000 warheads in the US nuclear arsenal at the height of the Cold War.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Edward Teller, a theoretical physicist known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.”
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Howard Morland’s Model of an H-Bomb Warhead.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Nuclear weapons designer Ted Taylor in Damascus, Maryland on October 13, 1986.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Peaceful Atoms: The CANDU Reactor in Darlington, Ontario, Canada on January 21, 1987.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Spent fuel in dry storage in Gentilly, Quebec on July 14, 1999.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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These million-gallon, double-walled carbon steel tanks are designed to contain high-level liquid radioactive waste.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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The speaker displays a chart showing the toxicity of various radioactive elements released to the environment during a chemical explosion 35 years earlier known as the Kyshtym disaster.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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A particle of plutonium in the lung tissue of an ape at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on September 20, 1982.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Alice Stewart, an epidemiologist who became a world authority on the health effects of low-level ionizing radiation.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Alvin Weinberg, an atomic pioneer who helped design the military production reactors at Hanford to convert uranium to plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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Two nuclear jet aircraft engines at an EBR-1 facility near Arco, Idaho National Laboratory on November 9, 1984.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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These women live in a village on the River Techa, 35 kilometers downstream from five plutonium-production reactors and a plutonium reprocessing plant.
Photo by Robert Del Tredici.
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