American physicist Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned right hand 9 days after he had manually stopped a prompt critical fission reaction during an accident with a plutonium sphere, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 29 Aug 1945; he would die from radiation poisoning 16 days after this photograph was taken

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Caption     American physicist Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned right hand 9 days after he had manually stopped a prompt critical fission reaction during an accident with a plutonium sphere, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, 29 Aug 1945; he would die from radiation poisoning 16 days after this photograph was taken ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Date 29 Aug 1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Added By C. Peter Chen
Photo Size 800 x 590 pixels



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