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The only congressionally chartered museum of its kind in the United States, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History tells the sweeping and often sobering story of the atomic age. Established in 1969 on a military base near Albuquerque and originally known as the atomic museum, it relocated to a purpose-built home in the city's science and technology park in 2009, where it serves as a Smithsonian affiliate and a national resource on nuclear science. The museum's exhibits trace the devel...