AOTUS: Collector in Chief

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A Shameless Plug

Opening a box of records in the Textual Research Room at Archives II, you expect to file folders stuffed with typed or handwritten documents. Sure, you’ll sometimes encounter log books, photos, and maps, but these are still paper-based records. You certainly don’t expect to find an envelope contained wires and objects with a shape and size similar to a car’s cigarette lighter like the ones pictured below. Yet, these objects did turn up among a researcher’s requested records. As is often the case, the researcher was very knowledgeable about the records he was looking at and identified these objects as the safety plugs for a Mark VI nuclear weapon. Obviously, this only increased the fascination with these items…

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11 months ago

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