EVB2945457: Aerial view of the K25 Plant at the Oak Ridge site of the Manhattan Project. This massive building housed the compressors and converters in which uranium hexafluoride was subjected to gaseous diffusion to separate fissionable uranium 235 from natural uranium 238. 1947 photo by Ed Westcott / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947033: The President gave a luncheon for a group of Senators at the White House, Wed, March 4, 1953. Front Row: John Kennedy; Mike Monroney; Hubert Humphrey; President Eisenhower; Harley Kilgore; Mike Mansfield. 2nd Row: Albert Gore Sr.; Henry Jackson; Price Daniel; Earle Clements. 3rd Row: Stuart Symington; Paul Douglas; Herbert Lehman; Thomas Hennings; Sherman Adams, Gen. Wilton Persons. / Bridgeman Images