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Los Alamos staff
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
Humphrey Bogart and Alfonso Bedoya
in
John Huston's
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
[1948]
Well, you did need a badge at Los Alamos.
Edward Teller
No, it is not a police mug shot but part of a comprehensive list with corresponding staff badge photographs of participants involved in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
staff photographs
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Partially-Reflected Plutonium Sphere
Harry Daghlian's radiation-burned hand
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