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Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk (center) celebrates his goal with teammates during the first period against the Penguins on Thursday. (The Canadian Press via AP)
The Penguins’ Justin Brazeau tries to tip the puck in front of Senators goaltender Linus Ullmark and Nick Jensen during the first period Thursday in Ottawa. (The Canadian Press via AP)
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Or you could just read the original source material for the movie, the tome “American Prometheus,” to find a passing reference to Aspinwall — tucked into page 155.
The nexus between Pennsylvania and one of the most critical figures of the nuclear era has remained obscure to all but the most diligent scholars, little appreciated and for the most part lost to time.
The mushroom cloud from the Trinity atomic bomb test, July 16, 1945. (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
While some of the region’s links to the dawn of the atomic age stood in plain view — Westinghouse, for instance, built the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant in Shippingport and designed the reactor for the first nuclear submarine — others were invisible like gravity.
The promise — and peril — of the power of the atom cast long shadows over Pennsylvania. They stretched from Forest Hills, home of the now-toppled Westinghouse atom smasher, to Shippingport; from Pittsburgh, original home of the Eichleay Engineering Corp., to the remote New Mexican desert, where Eichleay workers transported a 214-ton metal canister nicknamed “Jumbo” to the atom bomb test side codenamed “Trinity”; from Aspinwall to West Deer, where the Kratz family constructed a backyard nuclear fallout shelter and amassed an impressive collection of atomic-age ephemera.
Throughout Western Pennsylvania, scientists labored to unlock the mysteries of the quantum universe, engineers harnessed the atom’s energy, and families learned to fear a nightmare scenario of annihilation in a radioactive mushroom cloud.
And in tiny Aspinwall, a little girl who was born in Germany could not possibly conceive that one day she would occupy a front-row seat to history.