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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosion on July 16. 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Nam Song River toll bridge.
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  • The Kremlin in Suzdal, Russia.
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  • Weather: A Saguaro Cactus and an afternoon summer lightning storm in the Tucson, Arizona desert. (1993)
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  • A man with a goat on a leash walks past a mosque in Narok, Kenya on an afternoon with threatening storm clouds looming.
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  • Highway 13 over the mountains from Vang Vieng, Laos to Luang Prabang.
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  • Weather: A thunderhead cloud approaches the Breakers Water Park in Tucson, Arizona. A lightning detector is used to monitor the proximity of lightning, giving the lifeguards time to warn the swimmers when to get out of the water. (1993)
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  • Lights illuminate the Amazon Theater in Manaus, Brazil at dusk as a lightning storm flashes over the Solimoes River. The opera house was built in eclectic neo-classic style during the rubber boom period in the 1890's.
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Peter Menzel Photography

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