Timeline
Below is a general timeline that helps visualize historical events that explain how the atomic age began.
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Figure 1: Pierre and Marie Curie at work in their laboratory, unknown
Pierre and Marie Curie at work in their laboratory. (n.d.). Welcome Collection. https://jstor.org/stable/community.24719428
Figure 2: Let’s All Fight, Buy War Bonds, 1942
Unknown, & Fulmer, Ian. (1942). Let’s All Fight, Buy War Bonds [Posters]. Bucknell University; Lewisburg, PA. https://jstor.org/stable/community.9264980
Figure 3: USS Nevada, 1941
USS Nevada, USS Hoga. (12/7/1941). [Silver gelatin photoprint]. https://jstor.org/stable/community.2253514
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Figure 4: Untitled
Dvorak, D. F. (2013). The First Atomic Bomb Mission: Trinity B–29 Operations Three Weeks Before Hiroshima. Air Power History, 60(4), 4–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26276384
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Figure 5: Atomic Bomb Test Sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole #3, March 17, 1953
Gift Of Mary and Dan Solomon. (n.d.). Atomic bomb test sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Nevada Proving Ground, #3. Art Object Page. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.202745.html
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Figure 6: Hiroshima Atom Bomb Cloud, August 6, 1945
Gift Of Mary and Dan Solomon. (n.d.). Hiroshima Atom Bomb Cloud. Art Object Page. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.218298.html
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Figure 7: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb, 1945
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb. (8/45). https://jstor.org/stable/community.13879277
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