Photo: Frank da Cruz, 21 April 2009
Jim and Jack in the background, the vault door in the foreground. The vault
dates from the prewar Delta Phi fraternity days (what could they have used
it for?) but was retooled by
Herb
Grosch when IBM took possession of the building in 1946 to securely
store the Los Alamos material – the
Lab's
first project when it was still in
Pupin Hall
in 1945. Jim, Jack, and the other Watson Lab vets in this gallery
came 3-5 years later and had nothing to do with the A-bomb work.