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Atomic bomb

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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John S. Thompson slides, 1948

 Collection
Identifier: 003.06.05
Description of the Collection Lantern slides believed to have been used by Prof. John S. Thompson to teach nuclear physics at Illinois Institute of Technology prior to 1951. Most of these slides were commercially-produced, though some were assembled in Chicago and perhaps produced specifically for Thompson's classes, bearing images and graphs he had located in various published works. The slides mainly document the effects, both on buildings and humans, of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August...
Dates: 1948

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