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near the southeastern edge of albuquerque,

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new mexico, adjacent to kirtland

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air base, a collection of

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old planes missiles, submarine,

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sales and artillery sits

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baking in the hot desert, sun is

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a monument to our wartime history with nuclear

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weapons and it's one of many exhibits

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at the national museum of nuclear science

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and history

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welcome this

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is the largest museum about this

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topic in the world

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it was there is a executive director

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of the museum and many of the exhibits are devoted

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to the manhattan project which was developed in

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nearby los alamos

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we do have oppenheimer's limousine

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here we have the only full scale replica of

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the trinity test our air fare

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, and little boy bomb shapes our concurrent

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copies from nineteen forty five they're not made

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later they're the real ones this

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is trinity this is the blast

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effect of the extreme heat of the trinity

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test turn the santa glass

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there are big sections about nuclear

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medicine and the basic science around

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radiation

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our world is full of radiation the

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sun pounds us with entertains second

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of the day industry our

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homes are told that appliances and

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even our food goodbye to exposed to

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bust radiation as we will

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then there are the exhibits on how we

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enrich nuclear fuel and transport

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nuclear waste as well as some displays

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about the next generation of nuclear technology

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sponsored by none other than the nuclear

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industry is in the background

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you can hear the sounds of an air raid siren

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the type used to warrant

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but i'm not here for the side or the history

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or to duck and cover i want

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to feast my eyes on the museum

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your collection have

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, here we have boys

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we have games games

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movie posters t shirts

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an indication of how atomic

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energy was taken up by

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madison avenue

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it brought into our consciousness

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through the things we bought and consumed

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and saw and use in the aftermath

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of world war two americans became fascinated

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with all things thomas in the nineteen

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fifties kids get nuclear themed toy

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train and , are

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more cars that say radioactive

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danger radioactive said you know that if

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he were a boy scout in the nineteen sixties

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you could learn about nuclear science the

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boy scouts of america central

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america then

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personal favorite you might remember

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back in episode three when i mentioned the gilbert

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you to thirty eight atomic energy last

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this toilet kits uranium include

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the kids could use to learn about nuclear science

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my dad actually had one growing up

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along with a collection of radioactive rock said

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he kept in his bedroom and the museum

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has three of these kids stashed

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in their collection

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they're pretty rare for

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, seven thousand bucks on what he has

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love there were a few

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types of radioactive material that

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you could use to do the experiments

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that are in here there was here there

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of a geiger counter there was a comic

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book that came with it called dad

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would split the atom with a foreword

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by leslie grows we also heard

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about this briefly in episode three general

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lovely growth over

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the manhattan project so why

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on earth would he writing the forward to a public

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that an eighteen forties and nineteen

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fifties must the golden age of com

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when they broke into the mainstream and became

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hugely popular

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and what better way to reach the use

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the next generation american

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and teach them about atomic energy

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and to meet them where they work in the pages

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of a comic book i'm

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you and i are living

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