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Special Weapons Center's Pulse Power Laboratory
Special Weapons Center's Pulse Power Laboratory
Special Weapons Center's Pulse Power Laboratory

Special Weapons Center's Pulse Power Laboratory

Dateca. 1955
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.2 × 19.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.009
DescriptionA scientist inserts test material into the explosion chamber of the Special Weapons Center's pulse power laboratoriy at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The pulse power lab simulates certain effects of nuclear tdetonations at high altitudes and the scientist is leaning over a work table to put the materials into the chamber. A sign is on the wall behind him.
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