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Special Dog Remembered From Manhattan Project Days

8/10/2020

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WAC and chemist Helen Gowen feeds Timoshenko and friend. Courtesy/Reid Cameron family and Los Alamos Historical Society Archive
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
Many famous names emerged from the Manhattan Project years on the Pajarito Plateau, but not all were scientists.
Haskell Sheinberg, who came to Los Alamos as a member of the Special Engineer Detachment and stayed at the lab after the war years, remembered one such name. When Sheinberg was interviewed by the Atomic Heritage Foundation for the Manhattan Project Voices, he commented that dogs “were just allowed to roam” and remembered one such dog named Timoshenko, “the only dog allowed into the Tech Area, the main Tech Area.”

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Moment Caught On Film Becomes Historic Photo

8/2/2020

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A moment in history: In 1992, LANL Director Siegfried Hecker and VNIIEF Scientific Director Yuli Khariton shake hands on an airfield in Russia. Photograph by Vladimir Shmakov
By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society
In 2018, Russian scientist Vladimir Shmakov walked past the doors of the library for the Physics and Mathematics department at the Russian Federal Nuclear Center for Technical Physics (VNIITF). A display of new books caught his attention. It included a two-volume set of Doomed to Cooperate, and on the cover was a photograph he took in 1992.

“I was pleasantly surprised to see a photograph that I took in Sarov almost a quarter of a century ago,” Shmakov said.
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Doomed to Cooperate was published in 2016 by Bathtub Row Press, the publishing wing of the Los Alamos Historical Society. Shmakov had no idea that one of his photographs had been used for the cover until he saw it in that library display.

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