at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, August 2-30, 1995


Todd's page welcomes you to the world of all things atomic. Topics include: General Nuclear Energy Information, Nuclear Computing Resources, Nuclear Weapons Information, Nuclear Engineering Departments, Government Labs and Departments of Interest, Technical Radiation Impact Information, Equal Opportunity Space for Dissenting Opinions, Periodic Tables, Scholarly Texts, and Personal Testimonies. "The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them." -- Albert Einstein

Quicktime Movie of a detonation at Trinity Site
This b&w Mac/Quicktime movie is a clip from
an original newsreel, with original voiceover,
of a detonation. () PROGRAM/trinity.mov

This site contains: The Guided Tour, a trail through the World Wide Web, visiting places which have information related to the atomic bomb. It juxtaposes geographical and cultural opposites, crosses boundaries between perpetrators and victims. It investigates the events which have lead to the use of the atomic bomb, and makes the far-reaching and complex long-term effects visible. The Research Database investigates how the theme of the atomic bomb has been dealt with in literature, film and the arts.

Audio clip of President Harry Truman
announcing the dropping of the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima.
AIFF audio file, 30 seconds, 612k,
self-extracting archive, binhexed for Mac.

Enola Gay Controversy. This resource traces the history of the Enola Gay, first airplane to drop an atomic bomb in an act of war, up to and including the national controversy that erupted over the Smithsonian Museum's planned exhibition around the plane.


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