30 Photos of Plutonium and Nuclear Bombs
Neill Lynskey Published 02/18/2025
Here are the construction sites and labs dedicated to blowing us up.
We can all admit now that Oppenheimer was kind of a boring movie, but what they were working on wasn’t. Nuclear bomb labs, atomic missile silos, and raw, glowing plutonium are fascinating, terrifying, and just plain cool things to look at.
Check out some tech that will make World War III the grand finale of humanity.
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