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  • Designed for government agencies, military, police, SWAT units, and security forces, the TRAP T-2 is a remotely operated rifle. In dangerous situations, lawmen could fire the tethered robotic gun from a position safely out of harm's way. Developed by Graham Hawkes, a successful independent inventor, the gun is powered by a backpack worn by the shooter. At a shooting range near Hawkes's office in Port Richmond, California, the $47,000 rifle fires with deadly accuracy; untroubled by nerves or fatigues, it calmly and tirelessly tracks and hits objects no bigger than a quarter. Some divisions of the US military are already using the system and several police departments are also testing the TRAP T-2. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 150-151..
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  • Military vehicles and tents used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers during simulated combat conditions before deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California.
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Military vehicles patrol the streets of Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Military vehicles with Arabic calligraphy used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Medina Jabal, an Iraqi town at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Painted rocks in California's Mojave Desert, near the military training center at Fort Irwin.
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  • A severed leg in military boots, one of the tell-tell signs of a staged meltdown in the fabricated Iraqi village town of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Painted rocks in California's Mojave Desert, near the military training center at Fort Irwin.
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  • A medic responds to mayhem after a simulated explosion seemingly destroys an Army Humvee inside the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures  at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Hundreds of military and civilian actors and scores of directors participate in elaborate training exercises for soldiers deploying to Iraq. Some actors are actually amputees, adding to the realism of the scene, which is embellished with fake blood and dismembered limbs.
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  • Military Air storage. Tucson, Arizona. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, soldier at Fort Irwin, California speaks to one of his counterparts. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • Members of the armed forces practice for ceremonies to mark the founding of The Republic of China and New Year's Day at Freedom Plaza, by Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and National Concert Hall and National Theater.
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  • Members of the armed forces practice for ceremonies to mark the founding of The Republic of China and New Year's Day at Freedom Plaza, by Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and National Concert Hall and National Theater.
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  • A woman soldier in the May 1 Worker's Day parade in the Zocolo. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Missiles at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Hungarian-born American physicist Edward Teller, who is best known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Seen here at his home in Stanford, California. Born in 1908, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig. He left Europe in the 1930s because of the Nazi threat. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the development of the atom bomb. In the late 1940s & early 1950s he championed development of the H-bomb & achieved the crucial technical breakthrough that made the bomb possible. The first H-bomb was exploded in the South Pacific in 1952. MODEL RELEASED.Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003. (Photograph, 1988)
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  • At Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the grounds of the Los Alamos National Lab, the Bradbury Science Center puts a positive spin on the development of nuclear weapons with historical displays. Exhibits have sanitized versions of nuclear weapons casings and hand-on nuclear weapons design stations.
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  • Control Center of the Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. On display is a 110 foot tall missile, which weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. An exorcism is performed by a Catholic Priest, here sprinkling holy water, as visitors to ground zero mill around an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1986.
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  • Marine recruitment billboard in Roswell, New Mexico. (1997).
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  • Actors dressed as Iraqi men sit at a market stall in the fabricated Iraqi village if Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Armored Combat earthmover (ACE) at Fort. Ord, California,USA.
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  • A band member with his tuba reflected in his sunglasses while waiting for Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari during a  trip to the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • A band member with his tuba reflected in his sunglasses while waiting for Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari during a trip to the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Sadam Hussein nesting dolls.
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  • Chinese missiles at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event one of the world's biggest international trade fair for the aerospace business.
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  • Aerial of the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • General Mohamed Farrah Aidid, leader of USC Forces in South Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia. Photographed at his headquarter in March 1992. On October 3, 1993 US soldiers were sent on a mission to capture Aidid and his lieutenants.
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984).Information about the National Atomic Museum from .http://www.atomicmuseum.com/ [moved from lot 4]
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  • Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator used to test weapon components at Sandia National Laboratory site at Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Sandia was established in 1945 as a weapons stockpiling site. Since then, Sandia has diversified to study a variety of science applications. These include research and development in fossil, solar, geothermal and nuclear energy production, nuclear waste management and environmental research. Sandia is also responsible for the design and development of non- nuclear components for atomic weapons. (1984)
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  • Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator used to test weapon components at Sandia National Laboratory site at Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Sandia was established in 1945 as a weapons stockpiling site. Since then, Sandia has diversified to study a variety of science applications. These include research and development in fossil, solar, geothermal and nuclear energy production, nuclear waste management and environmental research. Sandia is also responsible for the design and development of non- nuclear components for atomic weapons. (1984)
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  • John Manley - assistant to Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project. Photographed in one of the original boy's camp lodges in Los Alamos, New Mexico, (1988) The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Hungarian-born American physicist Edward Teller, who is best known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Seen here at his home in Stanford, California. Born in 1908, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig. He left Europe in the 1930s because of the Nazi threat. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the development of the atom bomb. In the late 1940s & early 1950s he championed development of the H-bomb & achieved the crucial technical breakthrough that made the bomb possible. The first H-bomb was exploded in the South Pacific in 1952. MODEL RELEASED.Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003.
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  • Hungarian-born American physicist Edward Teller, who is best known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Seen here at his home in Stanford, California with his wife in their living room. Born in 1908, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig. He left Europe in the 1930s because of the Nazi threat. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the development of the atom bomb. In the late 1940s & early 1950s he championed development of the H-bomb & achieved the crucial technical breakthrough that made the bomb possible. The first H-bomb was exploded in the South Pacific in 1952. MODEL RELEASED.Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003.
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress, as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Nuclear Missiles: Shark, Mace, Matador (left to right). Los Alamos, New Mexico. 1992.
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  • The road to Los Alamos, New Mexico, with a full moon above a dangerous curve. (1988)
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  • Hungarian-born American physicist Edward Teller, who is best known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb". Seen here at his home in Stanford, California. Born in 1908, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig. He left Europe in the 1930s because of the Nazi threat. During World War II he worked at Los Alamos on the development of the atom bomb. In the late 1940s & early 1950s he championed development of the H-bomb & achieved the crucial technical breakthrough that made the bomb possible. The first H-bomb was exploded in the South Pacific in 1952. MODEL RELEASED.Teller died in Stanford, California on September 9, 2003. (Photograph, 1988)
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  • Star Wars research: neutral particle beam accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The accelerator was part of the Reagan White House project for a space-based accelerator that could produce a high-energy, uncharged particle beam that might examine, disarm, & even destroy distant objects (such as ballistic missiles), as part of America's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - the "Star Wars" program. Neutral (uncharged) particle beams are necessary because the influence of the Earth's magnetic field on electrically charged particles would cause them to travel in spirals. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1988)
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  • Street signs of two of the most famous names in the history of Nuclear bombs; Los Alamos, New Mexico. (Site) Trinity Drive and Oppenheimer Drive. (1985)
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  • At Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the grounds of the Los Alamos National Lab, the Bradbury Science Center puts a positive spin on the development of nuclear weapons with historical displays. Exhibits have sanitized versions of nuclear weapons casings and hand-on nuclear weapons design stations. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984)
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly. Seen here empty on its launch pad.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly. Seen here empty on its launch pad.
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  • Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico. Richard Mah seen with A3 Uranium Projectile research. The uranium projectile is very dense and is used for armor piercing weapons. MODEL RELEASED (1998)
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  • Washington, DC: 4-year, 24-hour nuclear weapons vigil-protest in front of white house. (1984)
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  • First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. An exorcism is performed by a Catholic Priest, here sprinkling holy water, as visitors to ground zero mill around an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1986.
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  • Nevada Nuclear Test site: crater created by Project Sedan nuclear blast in 1969 is 320 feet deep by 1289 feet in diameter. (1988)
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  • New Mexico, .First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity, visitors lined up to enter the McDonald farmhouse, restored by the National Park Service. The world's first atomic bomb was assembled here before it was hoisted onto a tower for the detonation that ushered in the nuclear age. (1984).
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  • New Mexico, First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range, which was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. Visitors to ground zero listen to a Manhattan Project scientist reminisce while standing next to an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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  • Area 51 signs on government land in Nevada warn visitors against trespassing and photography under penalty of imprisonment. Speculation that aliens were brought to the site and hidden by the US government has turned it into a tourist attraction although it is many miles on unmarked dirt roads off of Nevada Highway 360. (1999).
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  • Area 51 signs on government land in Nevada warn visitors against trespassing and photography under penalty of imprisonment. Speculation that aliens were brought to the site and hidden by the US government has turned it into a tourist attraction although it is many miles on unmarked dirt roads off of Nevada Highway 360. (1999).
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  • The fabricated village at Fort Irwin simulates life in Iraq for soldiers to the last detail, complete with consultations of Iraqi officials to resolve disputes.
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  • Village life inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Medina Jabal Iraqi town at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Iraqi police officers and their U.S counterparts patrol a street in a fabricated Iraqi village at Fort Irwin, California. The sets are used for combat training exercises before the troops deploy to Iraq.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, receives breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Fort Irwin, California, one of the places used by the U.S. Army to train soldiers before they are deployed to Iraq.
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  • Soldiers eating during a training exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California,
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • One of the actors in crisis simulations at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town at Camp Irwin in California.
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  • Women walk on the street in a fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, at Camp Irwin,  California.
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  • Actors stage a crisis situation in Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village  at Camp Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert.
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  • A soldier with a feigned injury at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi town used for training Iraq-bound U.S. soldiers at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Women walk past a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • An actor dressed as an Iraqi man stands outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert. The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A photographer films some of the actors at Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Vietnamese war veteran  Thuan Nguyen Van displays his medals in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Thuan Nguyen Van is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • U.S. Army officer Curtis Newcomer eats chili mac, his favorite MRE, at lunch time at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds. His weapon is fitted with a laser that interacts with receivers worn by all of the soldiers and actors in the training exercise, regardless of duty, rank, or location in the training theater. At left: After the second of three mock battles of the day, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • After the second of three mock battles of the day in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl, built by set coordinators from Paramount Pictures in the Mojave Desert, California, Iraqis and Americans playing soldiers, victims, and insurgents relax together in the shade until the next 20 minutes of choreographed crisis. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Vietnamese war veteran Nguyen Van Thuan displays his medals in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Nguyen Van Thuan is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • B-1B bomber at Edwards AFB, California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
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  • Offensive & Defensive Avionics stations of the B-1B bomber cockpit at Edwards AFB, California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
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  • B-1 bomber undergoing tests at Edwards AFB, Southern California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
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  • Scientist John Feddema demonstrates the assembly of MEMS parts (here, tiny gears the diameter of a human hair, seen through a microscope and viewed via the computer monitor image above John's head), ((MEMS stands for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)). The parts could be used for weapons components seen here at the Micro-Manipulation Lab, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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  • One of the monuments honoring Soviet accomplishments in days gone by in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia built on a little peak named Zaisan. It's still a popular site for visitors because of the good view over the city. School children visit and play. Material World Project.
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  • "We never forget," say the signs posted all over Kuwait City, referring to the Iraqi invasion in 1990 and the country's subsequent liberation by a U.S.-led coalition. Just 90 minutes by freeway from the border with impoverished, war-torn Iraq, the affluent Kuwaiti capital is peppered with U.S. fast-food chains and franchised restaurants. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 198). This image is featured alongside the Al Haggan family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Site Trinity, ground zero, on the White Sands Missile Range in S. New Mexico. Site of the world's first atomic explosiion on August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb was developed by the Manhatten Project. The Manhattan Project refers to the effort during World War II by the United States, in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Canada, and other European physicists, to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project)
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  • Jacques Littlefield's private tank collection.  In rural Woodside, California, USA. Silicon Valley, California, USA.
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  • A uniformed man seems to enjoy looking at the missiles on display at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1984)
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  • Star Wars research: neutral particle beam accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The accelerator was part of the Reagan White House project for a space-based accelerator that could produce a high-energy, uncharged particle beam that might examine, disarm, & even destroy distant objects (such as ballistic missiles), as part of America's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - the "Star Wars" program. Neutral (uncharged) particle beams are necessary because the influence of the Earth's magnetic field on electrically charged particles would cause them to travel in spirals. Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1988)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. A family inspects Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • Operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Atomic Museum contains a large collection of declassified nuclear technology. Since its opening in 1969, the objective of the National Atomic museum has been to provide a readily accessible repository of educational materials, and information on the Atomic Age. In addition, the museum's goal is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age. In late 1991 the museum was chartered by Congress as the United States' only official Atomic museum. Museum Director posing by Little Boy and Fat Man, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. There were two of each built in case the first one failed to explode. Los Alamos, New Mexico. MODEL RELEASED (1984)
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  • At Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the grounds of the Los Alamos National Lab, the Bradbury Science Center puts a positive spin on the development of nuclear weapons with historical displays. Here a plaster Robert Oppenheimer is frozen in time watching an endless-loop video of the mushroom clouds of atomic bomb tests. Other exhibits have sanitized versions of nuclear weapons casings and hand-on nuclear weapons design stations. Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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  • First atomic bomb test site: Site Trinity ground zero, the still radioactive piece of desert in the White Sands Missile Range, which was witness to the world's first nuclear explosion on August 6, 1945. Each year the site is open to the public for one day. Visitors to ground zero listen to a Manhattan Project scientist reminisce while standing next to an original Fat Man bomb casing, on loan from the nearby Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. .Test site of the first atomic bomb, part of the Manhattan Project. Trinity was detonated at 5:29am on 16th July 1945 at the Los Alamos site in New Mexico, USA.  (1984)
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  • A market inside the fabricated village of Medina Jabal at Fort Irwin, California. The village is used for training soldiers about to deploy to Iraq.
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  • Soldiers get their meals from an officers' mess at Fort Irwin, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left),  a soldier at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, getting breakfast at the mess tent. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,000 kcals. He is 20; 6'5" and 195 pounds.
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  • Curtis Newcomer (left), a soldier at Fort Irwin, California, smokes with one of his counterparts during a break.  (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Curtis Newcomer, a U.S. Army soldier, having an MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) lunch at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California's Mojave Desert. (Curtis Newcomer is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He eats his morning and evening meals in a mess hall tent, but his lunch consists of a variety of instant meals in the form of MREs. His least favorite is the cheese and veggie omelet. "Everybody hates that one. It's horrible," he says. A mile behind him, toward the base of the mountains, is Medina Wasl, a fabricated Iraqi village (one of 13 built for training exercises), with hidden video cameras and microphones linked to the base control center for performance reviews.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Women in burqas walk past an abandoned bicycle outside a mosque in the fabricated Iraqi village of Medina Wasl at Camp Irwin, California in the Mojave Desert.  The village is used for training soldiers deploying to Iraq.
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