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France and the Atomic Age

France and the Atomic Age

Discovering Radioactivity

Pierre and Marie Curie. Photo courtesy of the Musée Curie (coll. ACJC).

France and Fission

Ernest Rutherford's model of the atom

World War II

Adolf Hitler and leading Nazis by the Eiffel Tower after the fall of France

The Manhattan Project

Lew Kowarski conversing with Frederic Joliot-Curie and Hans Halban in a laboratory. Photo courtesy of J. Gueron, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

Postwar France

The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant. Photo courtesy of Stefan Kühn, Wikimedia Commons.

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