"This movie is a fun way to share the atomic-scale world, " Heinrich said.
It was built in the 1940s as part of the "Manhattan Project" to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II.
Remember it took the U.S. less than four years to go from the invention to the use of atomic weapons during World War II.
The only radiation events on this scale, where large populations received 0.1 Sv (10 rem) to 1 Sv (100 rem) have been the atomic bomb blasts from World War II.
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Then there is the Manhattan Project, the name given to America's development of the atomic bomb during the second world war.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization say 28 emergency workers died of radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
The group, which was founded by scientists who had worked on the first atomic bombs in the second world war, listed the continuing crisis between India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir as one of their concerns.
There, on July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated, and the nuclear age exploded into existence.
When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, less than half the world's uranium reserves can be mined profitably at current levels.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, is a world leader on energy security and efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Last week, Indian officials met members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world nuclear regulatory body, in Vienna to discuss plans to safeguard India's civilian nuclear facilities.
The United States feels that it has taken major steps over the first year or so of the Obama administration to enable it to call for stronger enforcement measures against states that break the rules of the world's nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Of course, the atomic bomb was one of the greatest U.S. secrets of World War II.
We are strongly supporting the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around the world.
Creating atomic-time standards became a priority in both America and Britain after the second world war.
Japanese manufacturers, utilities and government-funded institutes are also working with an industry lobby called the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum to train foreign civil servants and engineers from developing countries around the world on how to operate and maintain reactors.
With plutonium no longer needed for use in the world's abandoned fast breeder reactor programmes and nuclear powers getting rid of their atomic weapons, large stockpiles of the highly toxic plutonium metal are starting to build up.
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