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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Project "Y")
Photo: P-200 ("Gadget" Components Leave" )
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| This photo was originally titled "Bomb Core Arrives".
However, in actuality, it is a photo of the "Gadget" components leaving
the MacDonald Ranch on its way to the Trinity site. John Coster-Mullen,
author of Atom Bombs - The
Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man, provided
the description below! Photo P-200 "Bomb Core Arrives" is not accurate. The color movie footage taken at the same time shows the 1942 Plymouth pointed in the other direction and the passenger side doors are open. Two scientists are shown carrying the empty uranium capsule on a litter from the car into the ranch house. The ventilated wooden box covering the capsule was tipped at an angle as they carried it to the front door. They probably checked the capsule in the back seat before they removed it and didn't bother to put the cover on straight before they carried it to the house. There was only a small driveway in front of the stone fence at the McDonald ranch. It ended a few yard behind the car in your photo. There was not much space there to turn a car around. The P-200 photo shows the car ready to leave to drive to the Trinity site a few miles directly over the left shoulder of the photographer. Herb Lehr (L) and Harry Daghlian (R) are loading the completely assembled plutonium-filled uranium capsule into the back seat. An unnamed SED is holding the door open. The movie footage also shows the car in the same ready-to-leave position with many of the scientists, including Oppenheimer, swarming around it. It is also shown being driven away right after that. This photo is commonly mislabeled. |
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