Shipments & Connections
The nuclear weapons complex was connected by movement. Rosetta reconstructs transfers of nuclear materials, sealed sources, components, equipment, samples, records, and technical responsibility by linking senders and receivers to dates, forms, quantities, purposes, carriers, operations, and surviving documentation.
Research pathways
A shipment reference can establish an important connection, but it does not by itself establish handling, worker contact, exposure, or the full purpose of the transfer. Rosetta preserves those distinctions while joining records that document movement across the complex.
Transfers
Trace documented transfers of uranium, plutonium, tritium, thorium, radioisotopes, source materials, scrap, residues, and other nuclear materials between identified nodes.
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Follow sealed sources, heat sources, components, assemblies, instruments, and other hardware from fabrication or procurement through transfer, use, return, and disposition.
Connect to materials genealogy →Documents
Connect bills of lading, manifests, receiving reports, transfer forms, accountability records, packing lists, shipping surveys, purchase records, and related documentary trails.
Follow the archival record →Institutions
Reconstruct documented relationships among federal facilities, laboratories, military organizations, universities, contractors, vendors, and other participating institutions.
Explore people & organizations →Routes
Recover transportation routes, carriers, intermediate transfer points, receiving docks, storage locations, and other movement details when the historical record supports them.
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Determine why a transfer occurred by connecting it to production, research, testing, reactor, isotopic-power, maintenance, recovery, or other documented work.
Explore operations & programs →Place
Use documented movement to connect geographic nodes while preserving the distinction between a facility's existence and an evidenced historical relationship.
Open the Facility Atlas →Missing record
Track referenced shipments, expected accountability records, incomplete destination data, unidentified source numbers, missing receiving records, and other documentary gaps without filling them by inference.
Follow missing-record research →Relationship standard
A documented transfer can establish that material or a component moved between two nodes. Additional evidence is required to establish its form at receipt, how it was handled, which workers encountered it, what monitoring occurred, and whether it created an occupational exposure pathway.
How Rosetta evaluates evidence →Connect the network
As records are verified, transfers can connect the Facility Atlas, Nuclear Materials Genealogy, People & Organizations, Operations & Programs, occupational history, and archival collections.
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“Follow the movement, and the network begins to take shape.”