Japanese atom labs - from our story 'Tokyo, Japan 1917-1950: Rare Images Of Love, Loathing And Life'

In this combo photo, members of an American Engineer Aviation Battalion remove parts from a Japanese cyclotron in the Nishina Laboratory at Tokyo on Dec. 4, 1945. Part of the “Atom Gun” is removed. A vacuum chamber is extracted. The operation is part of the Allied program of destroying all Japanese atomic energy research equipment. (AP Photo/Julian C. Wilson) Ref #: PA.10457171