Subject:  VIDEO: Assembling the Test A-...
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Date:  3/5/1996

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Historic video clip of scientists at Los Alamos, N.M., assembling the world's first atomic bomb, nicknamed "the Gadget," in preparation for its testing on July 16, 1945.

See Letter from Hiroshima, "To the Victor Belongs the Guilt," August 7, 1995. 


Courtesy of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.