Every Nuclear Family is Nuclear in its Own Way

Here’s a fascinating series of photographs from a book on the Soviet bomb program.  Someday, I would love to see a big coffee table book of pictures like these from all of the nuclear powers. The story that Richard Rhodes tells about the Manhattan Project is of an extended, extremely well-funded fraternity retreat from an elite engineering college.  The Russian visuals seem almost steampunk by comparison. I’m sure that the rest of programs have their own unique stories.