A visit to The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History

I just got back last night from a trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico to give my Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics talk. While I was there, my host was gracious enough to invite me to an evening event at The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, dedicated to “preserving and presenting the story of the Atomic Age.” I didn’t have a lot of time to spend at the exhibits, but I took a few photos and thought I would share them here! The event itself was a talk and ribbon cutting for a new temporary exhibit of the history of the Air Force Research Laboratory Phillips research site, which did a lot of the nuclear and rocketry work post-WWII. The presentation, by the AFRL historian, was fun and surprisingly interesting! (I wasn’t sure how interesting a talk on a lab’s history would be.) Afterwards, the ribbon was cut and folks were allowed to explore the new exhibit. Let me just share a few highlights for me from the AFRL exhibit. One is the “Plastinaut,” a dummy designed to mimic…

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