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Truman and the Bomb, a Documentary History
Chapter 4: Cloud Drawings by Luis W. Alvarez

Edited by Robert H. Ferrell (used with permission)

Like so many scientists who took part in the Manhattan Project, Luis W. Alvarez, professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, was on the scene of the Alamogordo detonation. Unlike the others, he immediately made a sketch of what he saw.

View the drawing

SOURCE: "Research notes," box 1, Lansing Lamont papers.

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