National Museum of Nuclear Science and Technology - II

One of the exhibits here was a large set of drawings by a soldier, Charles J. Miller. Above is a drawing of the Enola Gay, the airplane that carried the first bomb to Japan.

Charles J. Miller a soldier in World War II, a self-taught painter used children’s watercolors to paint his paintings based on the things he saw. Alongside some of these paintings, Miller wrote text panels that contain what was happening in the painting. Miller painted in anything he could use such as large sheets of paper to the inside of cigarette cartons. During his time in WWII, he painted over 700 paintings and the museum is displaying 120 of them. (source)

The secrecy surrounding the lab was intense. here is a driver's license issued by the state of New Mexico to one of the people at the lab. As you can see, everything that could be used to tell anyone where they actually were, who they were, or what they were doing was absent. Not much use for an ID card, eh? What happened if you lost your license...almost anyone could pick it up and use it in your place, right? Different world then.

The main entrance has a very nice periodic table of the elements fashioned into the floor. Very cool.

This place is a must-see on your next visit to Albuquerque.