Manhattan Project

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  9/2/2020
  

  Cancer Cases Likely in Those Exposed to New Mexico Atomic Test

  National Cancer Institute findings suggest that it is likely that some people exposed to fallout from the Trinity atomic bomb tests got cancer as a result. However, the incomplete data available make it unclear if the findings will help advance legislation to compensate "downwinders" for health damage.   

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Was there a Third A-Bomb? A Fourth? A Fifth?

  by Don Farrell

  Japan's surrender makes the question a matter of speculation, but the history of military facilties built on Tinian in the Mariana Islands suggests that American military leadership was preparing to assemble many more atomic bombs should the Pacific war have continued. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/6/2020
  

  Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield

  Two new books examine unexpected facets of World War II. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Better Than Silence: The Need for Memorials to the Manhattan Project

  by Stephen Kiernan

  Creating the bomb was both a milestone achievement, and a profound expansion of the limits of warfare. This complexity deserves a permanent public memorial.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/15/2020
  

  ‘Now I Am Become Death’: The Legacy of the First Nuclear Bomb Test

  “They took some effort” to protect the public, Science Historian Alex Wellerstein said. “Would we consider it adequate today? No, not at all. It’s not considered adequate to set off a nuclear bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Geiger counter to monitor radiation.”

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• 7/12/2020
  

  75 Years Ago the First "Nuclear Race" Was in Hollywood

  by Greg Mitchell

  Despite Americans' keen interest and considerable fear in the atomic bomb after the end of World War II, the first commercial film to tackle the Manhattan Project was a bomb of a different sort. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-24-16
  

  The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: a story of twin tragedies

  by Susan Williams

  For many long years the American atomic project relied on Congolese ore.

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• 9-20-15
  

  The Man Who Saved the Manhattan Project

  by Michael Hiltzik

  His name was Ernest Lawrence, the man Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is named after.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-20-13
  

  The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project

  "Forbidden City" the headline proclaimed. It continued: "Uncle Sam's Mystery Town Directed by '2d Einstein.'"

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-20-2013
  

  The Time a Cleveland Newspaper Divulged the Manhattan Project

  The Atlantic discusses modern journalism and national security via a censored article on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.

• SOURCE: Knoxville News
  7-1-13
  

  Manhattan Project park clears hurdle

  The campaign to create a national park dedicated to the once-top-secret Manhattan Project is moving through Congress, but supporters aren’t ready to declare victory just yet.“It is by no means a fait accompli,” says Nancy Tinker, senior field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.Still it’s the closest the park has come yet to being a done deal.The U.S. House approved in June the $552.1 billion defense authorization bill, which included funds to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which would include sites in Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, N.M., and Hanford, Wash....

• SOURCE: LA Times
  6-7-13
  

  Stephanie Meeks: Preserving the History of the Manhattan Project

  Stephanie Meeks is the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century's most ambitious feats of science and engineering. And one of its darkest moments.In many respects, the Manhattan Project ushered in the modern era. The creation and use of these early weapons of mass destruction raised profound ethical questions, which remain just as challenging and urgent today as in 1945. As a nation, we have a responsibility to grapple openly and objectively with the Manhattan Project's complex legacy.To do that, we need a place for reflection. Legislation before Congress would establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, an assembly of three locations central to the development of the atomic bomb: Hanford, Wash., site of the first full-scale nuclear reactor; Oak Ridge, Tenn., home to the first uranium enrichment plant; and the laboratory and related sites at Los Alamos, N.M....

• SOURCE: FoxNews
  03-07-13
  

  Nathan Safferstein, counterintelligence agent on World War II Manhattan Project, dies in NYC

  Nathan Safferstein, a counterintelligence agent on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb during World War II, died Tuesday night at his home in the Bronx after a long illness, his family said. He was 92. The genial native of Bridgeport, Conn., was barely 21 when circumstances suddenly propelled him from his job as a supermarket manager into the stealth world of a special agent....  

• SOURCE: WSJ
  3-7-13
  

  Manhattan Project agent Safferstein dies

  NEW YORK — Nathan Safferstein, a counterintelligence agent on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb during World War II, has died after a long illness. He was 92.He died Tuesday night at his home in the Bronx, his family said.The genial native of Bridgeport, Conn., was barely 21 when circumstances suddenly propelled him from his job as a supermarket manager into the stealth world of a special agent.Wartime security of the atomic bomb project being paramount, he eavesdropped on phone calls of scientists and engineers in Los Alamos, N.M., to make sure no secrets were leaked, and delivered bomb-making uranium and top-secret messages. He also scrawled his signature on the first A-bomb, called "Little Boy," that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945....