Photo collections
Explore the visits, experiments, and workshops through the original photos and captions.
A photographic display of Sarov–Los Alamos Sister Cities exchanges, Sarov School No. 2, February 1995. ↗Whenever possible, we’d like to make the events and stories visual with photos and videos – or paper clips and documents of the time.
Verification
Laboratory exchange visits
Scientific experiments
Nuclear weapons safety
Surety Technology Symposia
Exploratory meetings and four workshops brought American and Russian specialists together to discuss unclassified questions of nuclear safety.
Background, participants, and the symposium sequence →
Moscow, Ekaterinburg, and Snezhinsk
July and October 1993 · Collections of William Bookless and Paul White
Exploratory meetings in July 1993 and the first symposium in Snezhinsk in October 1993.
11 photographs & illustrations →
Albuquerque and Sarov
October–November 1993 and January–February 1994 · Collections of William Bookless and Paul White
The second and third symposia, held in Albuquerque and Sarov.
15 photographs & illustrations →
Livermore and Pleasanton
March 1994 · Collection of William Bookless, LLNL
The fourth surety workshop, hosted by LLNL in Pleasanton in March 1994.
15 photographs & illustrations →Collections from Sarov and Snezhinsk
Vladimir Afanasiev’s Nuclear Safety Collection
Vladimir Afanasiev · VNIIEF, Sarov
Vladimir Afanasiev’s photographs of nuclear weapons safety and security exchanges.
21 photographs & illustrations →
Nuclear Safety Projects: Snezhinsk
Photos and technical illustrations from Rodion Voznyuk’s account
Rodion Voznyuk’s photographs and diagrams of VNIITF weapons-safety projects.
10 photographs & illustrations →Scientific Gatherings
The lab-to-lab programs involved thousands of scientists and engineers from the USA and Russia in the 1990s and 2000s.