1945 Pictures - page 3

Fat Man plutonium bomb being placed on trailer cradle in front of Assembly Building #2, 08/1945 (NWDNS-77-BT-187) from NAIL

Little Boy uranium bomb on trailer cradle in pit, bomb bay door in upper right-hand corner, 08/1945 (NWDNS-77-BT-115) from NAIL

Jumbo atomic device being positioned for Trinity test at Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945 (NWDNS-434-N-61(6380) ) from NAIL

B-29 Enola Gay after strike at Hiroshima, entering hard-stand, 08/06/1945 (NWDNS-77-BT-91) from NAIL

Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for identifying new elements and discovering nuclear reactions by his method of nuclear irradiation and bombardment. He was born in Rome, Italy, on September 29, 1901, and died in Chicago, Illinois, on November 28, 1954 1943-1949 (NWDNS-434-OR-7(24)) from NAIL

Pre-attack mosaic view of Hiroshima, Japan 04/13/1945 (NWDNS-243-HP-1(3) ) from NAIL

Post-attack mosaic view of Hiroshima, Japan 08/11/1945 (NWDNS-243-HP-1(4) ) from NAIL