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Atomic tourism

  • National Air and Space MuseumOn the 12th of August 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed an act of Congress establishing the National Air Museum. This new institution inherited a…
  • Trinity (nuclear test)In April 1944, Los Alamos physicist Emilio Segrè made a discovery that threatened to derail the entire Manhattan Project.
  • Obninsk Nuclear Power PlantIn June 1954, the Soviet Union connected a nuclear reactor to an electrical grid for the first time. This event took place in Obninsk, located about 30…