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Description: Rare government image of J. Robert Oppenheimer (in light colored hat with foot on tower rubble), General Leslie Groves (large man in military dress to Oppenheimer's left), and others at the ground zero site of the Trinity test after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (some time after the actual test). It should be noted that most photographs of this event available are taken by wire press sources and are not public domain; this one however is in the public domain as a government photograph.
Title: Trinity Test - Oppenheimer and Groves at Ground Zero 001
Credit: Image taken from http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/279 and cropped and saved to a more appropriate file format.
Author: United States Army Signal Corps
Permission: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. Please note that national laboratories operate under varying licences and some are not free. Check the site policies of any national lab before crediting it with this tag. English | français | македонски | മലയാളം | Nederlands | русский | українська | 中文(简体)‎ | 中文(繁體)‎ | +/−
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License: Public domain
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