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The Manhattan Project Videohistory Collection, 1987-1990

7 results in SIA.FARU9531 for "Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory"
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Series 3: Cambridge
Interviews
At the Audvid Film and Tape Productions studio, featured French, Frisch, Serber, and Wilson on the organization of Los Alamos and the scientific activities there, c. 1943-1945, including: rationale for forming the Laboratory and considerations for site selection; whether to make Los Alamos a military or civilian camp; background to the Serber lectures of April 1943; performance of Oppenheimer as administrator and colleague; living conditions; changing perceptions of the nature of making an atomic bomb; the spontaneous fission of plutonium and its effect on the organization of the laboratory; the British contingent, and comparisons between the Los Alamos and Cavendish Laboratories; controversies over the use of the bomb; objections to pursuing research for the hydrogen bomb; formation of the Association of Los Alamos Scientists. There is no extra visual documentation in this session.
Interviews
At the Audvid Film and Tape Productions studios, featured Hornig, Frisch, Smith, and Wilson on the roles of women in both the domestic and scientific life of Los Alamos, c. 1943-1946, including: homemaking facilities and child care arrangements; social and recreational activities in the area; school and library systems; Hornig's role as a scientist in the implosion program and high explosives development; Frisch on radiation research at the medical laboratory; agreement on constraints on women's participation in scientific activities; perceptions of the Trinity test and post-Trinity conflicts between the scientific community and the military. Visual documentation included: period photographs of Los Alamos.
Interviews
Series 4: Los Alamos
Interviews
At Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, featured Bethe, Christy, Reines, and Mark on the theoretical physicist's view of the Laboratory's operation, c. 1943-1945, including: reasons for participation; division of labor between and relationship of theoretical and experimental physicists; insulation from other Project researchers; uranium hydride program; theoretical and experimental emphasis on physical power of atomic blast; implosion research; reactions to the Trinity test; post-blast measurements of yield. Note: Session 14 was taped on two separate recorders, which resulted in two distinct set of images on tapes. The audio, however, is the same. Only one tape is necessary to view the interview.
Interviews
At Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, featured Bacher, Bainbridge, Bradbury, and Hawkins on the experimental physicist's experience at the Laboratory, c. 1943-1945, including: methods of recruitment and reasons for participation; debate on civilian or military nature of Lab; differences between internal and external exchanges of information; organization of Laboratory; gun experiments; relationship of Groves and Oppenheimer; weekend recreation; understanding Klaus Fuchs; predicting the Soviet bomb; post-blast depression and efforts to regulate nuclear power.
Interviews
Consisted of visual documentation of the landscape of Los Alamos in 1945 and 1988, including: nine still photographs of the preparations for Trinity; views of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and environs.
Interviews
Series 5: Alberta