3 episodes
Relics Alan Carr, Brye Steeves
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- History
Each Relics episode highlights one significant legacy item from the collections of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Security Research Center with mini lessons in Los Alamos history and national security. Host Brye Steeves narrates each 10-minute episode, which includes historian Alan Carr as well as a subject matter expert to talk specifically about the item.
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How to Make a Fat Man
"Fat Man" was the codename for the implosion-type nuclear weapons designed by Los Alamos scientists to help end World War II. The NSRC has the only-known step-by-step manual still in existence. It includes drawings and photographs.
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Secret City Babies
Los Alamos was so secret that in some cases, it didn’t even exist. Instead of listing a city on birth certificates during the Manhattan Project era, the official documents just listed an address: P.O. Box 1663.
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Oppenheimer’s Chair
Even the "father of the atomic bomb" had to sit down somewhere. The military-issue chair of legendary first Lab Director and brilliant physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the few items we still have of his.