Robert Oppenheimer is the man responsible for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. You know, it's like you're making a cake almost, I guess you're making candy. They had this array of candy kettles where they would melt high explosives and pour 'em in the mold and then cool them down over the course of like, you know, a day very, very slowly. I think somebody said it was peppermint candy is what they were used for. Places like where they melted the explosives to make the bombs.īacrania: I don't know who had the idea, but they said, let's call up one of these industrial candy-making companies and get some, essentially, double boiler kettles. These are places he didn't even get to see when he worked at Los Alamos. He got special permission to photograph some of these restricted locations for Smithsonian magazine. Klimek: Minesh is now one of the only people who's been allowed to visit some of these sites where the Manhattan Project took place. It's also kind of horrific from a social point of view. You know, from a nuclear physics point of view, it's kind of an amazing thing. This was a project that started in New York City but later moved to labs in Tennessee, Washington State, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.īacrania: Part of the reason I was motivated to go to Los Alamos is because the history is just so fascinating. He spent five years working in the national lab at Los Alamos: the place where the atomic bomb was invented through the Manhattan Project. Klimek: Minesh didn't just work any old place. We're sitting eating breakfast, and he's in eighth grade. Minesh Bacrania, Smithsonian magazine photographer: You know, my son asked me today where helium comes from. Now, he works as a photographer … and most of his science talk happens around his kitchen table. In grad school, he studied nuclear fusion reactions in the sun. Chris Klimek, host: Minesh Bacrania is a former nuclear physicist.
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