The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project

• Moving "Jumbo" at the Trinity test site
• The "Gadget"
• Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Handling radioactive materials at the Savannah River Laboratory
• Construction of high-level radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Reservation
• Disposal of nuclear waste at Hanford, circa 1950s
• The ultradry room at the Y-12 Plant
• VIP observers at Operation Greenhouse, April 8, 1951
• Radioactive decontamination at the Nevada Proving Ground, April 23, 1951
• Troops observing the "Dog" test, November 1, 1951
• The "Mike" test, November 1, 1952
• Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site
• Department of Energy Safeguards Transporter
• The Cactus Dome
• Dismantling a B-61 gravity bomb

• Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program
• B-58 bomber on ground alert
• B-52H with Advanced Cruise Missiles
• KC-10 tanker refueling a B-2 bomber
• B-2A bomber dropping a B61-11 gravity bomb

• The Rascal air-to-surface missile
• Snark cruise missile
• Matador cruise missile
• The Palomares "Broken Arrow", January 1966
• Titan I missile complex under construction
• Titan I launch sequence
• Minuteman missile silo under construction
• Minuteman launch control capsules
• W62/Mk 12 re-entry vehicle
• Retiring a Minuteman ICBM
• MX re-entry vehicles in flight over the Pacific Ocean
• Polaris A-1 submarine-launched ballistic missle test launch
• Polaris A-3 and Poseidon C-3 submarine-launched ballistic missiles
• Poseidon missile test launch
• Nike defensive missiles
• Spartan and Sprint antiballistic missiles
• Stanley R. Mickelson Safeguard antiballistic missile complex
• Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile
• Air-Launched Cruise Missile

• Launching of the USS George Washington
• P-3 Orion antisubmarine warfare plane
• A Trident submarine with missile hatches open
• Dismantling nuclear submarines

• U.S. Army missiles
• Lacrosse missile
• Redstone missile
• Davy Crockett
• Atomic Demolition Munitions
• Talos surface-to-air missile
• W48 155-millimeter artillery shell
• Lance missile
• B-61 gravity bomb
• Pershing II missile test launch
• Destruction of a Pershing II missile

• Defense Support Program Early Warning Satellite
• TRESTLE Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator
• PAVE PAWS early-warning radar

• Strategic Air Command headquarters under construction (Omaha, Nebraska)
• Construction of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) (Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado)
• Greenbrier bunker blast door (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia)
• Mount Pony (Culpeper, Virginia)

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