On October 5, 2016, Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) staff were privileged to meet with four Manhattan Project veterans from Oak Ridge who were participating in an HonorAir Knoxville program. The veterans were Ed Westcott, Virginia Coleman, Christine Higgenbotham, and Peggy Stuart.Honor Flights are organized by nonprofits around the country to…| Nuclear Museum
In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, AHF is pleased to make its documentary film A Sense of Place available online. In 2006, the Los Alamos National Laboratory had just completed the restoration of the “V Site” (photo). Located in a secure area of the laboratory, the “V Site” […]| Nuclear Museum
Join us in celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park! The official signing ceremony with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz that established the new Park was held on November 10, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy of Oak Ridge Today). The Park has three […]| Nuclear Museum
On August 3, 2020, Helene Suydam died peacefully in her sleep at age 100. John Ruminer, member of the Board of Directors of the Los Alamos Historical Society, described Helene as “an iconic member of our community. Her sixty-plus years on Bathtub Row touched the lives of many of our best-known historical families. She had […]| Nuclear Museum
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of two new “Ranger in Your Pocket” online interpretive programs on African Americans and the Manhattan Project and the environmental legacy of the nuclear site at Hanford, Washington. In viewing these programs, students, online audiences around the world, and visitors to the Manhattan Project National Historical […]| Nuclear Museum
With an agreement signed on June 28, 2019, the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History (pictured) are forging a new partnership to preserve the history of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age. This significant agreement will ensure that the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s extensive collection of oral histories, interpretive […]| Nuclear Museum
On the evening of April 12, 2019, esteemed physicist Dr. Geoffrey Chew passed away at the age of 94. Chew was born in Washington, D.C. in 1924. After receiving his B.S. in Physics from George Washington University in 1944, he was recommended by one of his professors to join Edward Teller’s team on the Manhattan […]| Nuclear Museum
“Nuclear medicine, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons. All of that goes back to Oak Ridge,” explains Denise Kiernan, bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been a center for nuclear research since General Leslie Groves selected it as the Manhattan Project’s uranium enrichment site in 1942. Today, Oak Ridge is the […]| Nuclear Museum
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AHF joins Oak Ridgers and Manhattan Project families in mourning the loss of our friend James Edward "Ed" Westcott, the official photographer for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Ed died on March 29, 2019 in his home in Oak Ridge at the age of 97.As Cindy Kelly, AHF…| Nuclear Museum
Between April 1945 and July 1947, eighteen subjects were injected with plutonium, six with uranium, five with polonium, and at least one with americium in order to better understand the effects of radioactive materials on the human body.| Nuclear Museum
Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation, and today is Thursday, November 7, 2013, and I have with me Margaret Parsons Bowditch. And my first question to her is to tell me her name and spell it. Peggy Bowditch: Peggy Bowditch, that is B-o-w-d-i-t-c-h. Kelly: Thank you. And can you…| Nuclear Museum
I address myself to the organization, founded for the purpose to further co-operation between nations on all problems of common concern, with some considerations regarding the adjustment of international relations required by modern development of science and technology. At the same time as this development holds out such great promises…| Nuclear Museum
A PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESJuly 17, 1945Discoveries of which the people of the United States are not aware may affect the welfare of this nation in the near future. The liberation of the atomic power which has been achieved places atomic bombs in the hands of…| Nuclear Museum
