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2024 Issue

2024 Issue

The Vault is the annual publication of the Laboratory’s National Security Research Center: an unclassified look into the NSRC’s classified collections, full of stories about the Lab’s past and how it informs today’s mission work. The 2024 issue features compelling graphics, audio and video links, and stories about the making of the NSRC’s Oppenheimer documentary, Manhattan Project-era legend and founding father of detonator science John Tucker— and much more to read, watch and listen to.

Featured Article

The NSRC’s Summer of Oppenheimer

From traveling exhibits and community screenings to panel discussions and special guests, each event was testimony to the NSRC’s special role as the custodian of the Lab’s living history and Oppenheimer’s lasting legacy.

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  • November 18, 2024

    Newly Digitized Nitrate Reels Show Earliest Days of Nuclear Testing

    How NSRC archivists rescued and digitized volatile nitrate films from the dawn of nuclear testing.

  • November 18, 2024

    FOIA requests at the National Security Research Center

    Queries from the public can sometimes be otherworldly.

  • November 18, 2024

    Family matters at Project Y

    The world knew Oppenheimer and Teller as groundbreaking physicists. Their children knew them as “Dad.”

  • November 18, 2024

    Honoring the Life of John L. Tucker

    Founding father of detonator science and Manhattan Project–era legend dies at 105.

  • November 18, 2024

    Voyage of Discoveries

    Rediscovered Oppenheimer photos, trinity test footage, and vital 'Bomb Books' illuminate nuclear history.

Featured

  • November 18, 2024

    The NSRC’s Summer of Oppenheimer

    From traveling exhibits and community screenings to panel discussions and special guests, each event was testimony to the NSRC’s special role as the custodian of the Lab’s living history and Oppenheimer’s lasting legacy.

  • November 18, 2024

    Our story to tell

    The making of the National Security Research Center’s Oppenheimer documentary.

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