Between the flag that flew at the Trinity Site base camp, tattered from the strong New Mexican winds, and a spare Fat Man nuclear bomb casing, Akira Ono of Osaka, Japan, tours the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque. Ono said he had mixed feelings visiting a museum dedicated to weapons of mass destruction. STORIES BY BILL DIETRICH PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALAN BERNER On July 16, 1945, a brilliant flash ...

The Manhattan Project was headed by General Groves and included Los Alamos, Hanford and Oak Ridge facilities ...

Cultural History Projects Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project was released by the University of Illinois Press in 1997. A cultural and environmental history of the Manhattan Project, it looks at a wide variety of artifacts, from classified memos instructing workers in the appropriate language to use, to photographs of the injured and dying at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the Spring of ...