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“I think about nuclear war not because I find it fascinating but because I want to prevent it, to make it unthinkable.” ~~ in 2023
— Daniel Ellsberg [1931-2023]

General  Links

Wikipedia's list of anti-nuclear advocates in the U.S.
A-bomb WWW Museum in Japan
Atomic Photographers Guild [est. 1991]
National Atomic Testing Museum [est. 2005], 755 E. Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, Nevada
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History [est. 1969, opened 2009] in Albuquerque, New Mexico

details of 'Divine Strake' simulated atomic bomb test in Nevada set for 23 June 2006
protest group Western Shoshone Defense Project

on the Atomic USA Books page
top of page + year 1940 + year 2000 + year 2020 + atomic fiction

Military / Weapons / Nuclear books catalog at Amazon

Stageplays,  Other  Media

"A.C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab" [Oct 1950]

Explore the secrets of the atom! Perform over 150 exciting experiments! All samples of radioactive materials are completely harmless! • pre-Sputnik science kit in 17x25x5-inch box with actual radioactive isotope material, a Spinthariscope, a Wilson cloud chamber, an electroscope, a Ferret Geiger-Mueller Counter, Atomic Energy Manual, Prospecting For Uranium manual, and blue & red spheres to make an alpha particle molecular model very old, very scarce, none listed for sale on Amazon 1/2020 artifact description at I.E.E.E. website artifact description at National Museum of Nuclear Science & History [est. 1969] website

"Downwind: A People’s History of The Nuclear West by Sarah Alisabeth Fox" [Oct 2015]
lecture as part of Utah State Archives Month for Utah State Archives & Records Service
introduction/info to 5:20; Sarah Fox speaks + slides from 5:20 to 42:35, Q&A to the end
listen to/watch 10/2015 full live lecture with slides [1:00:05] online at YouTube
author's official booksite

"Downwind: A People's History of The Nuclear West, Illustrated" [2014] by Sarah Alisabeth Fox { author's official booksite } an unflinching report of the American atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War Kindle Edition from Bison Books [11/2014] for $11.99 Bison Books 9x6 pb [10/2018] for $15.83 Bison Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2014] for $29.95

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"Downwinders . . . The Play" [2012] by Ed Kociela According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the National Cancer Institute, approximately 15,000 Americans have been killed by the worst attack ever on American soil, an attack that lasted from 1951 until 1992. They are 'Downwinders', the victims of radioactive fallout that fell from the sky as a result of the 1,000+ nuclear detonations that took place at the Nevada Test Site during the Cold War. 144-page Kindle Edition from self-publd [11/2012] for $2.99 142-page self-publd 8x5¼ pb playscript [11/2012] for $5.99

"Uranium and Peaches: A Play in One Act" [world premiere June 2018]

The dramatic and fateful 1945 confrontation between Einstein's protégé, Leo Szilard, and Truman's mentor, Jimmy Byrnes - science battles politics: The scientist behind the bomb wants to stop it ... the politician behind the president wants to drop it ... the timeless struggle against the corruption of human ingenuity • Written by Peter Cook & William Lanouette; world premiere performance at Salk Institute in June 2018 directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg; previously performed November 2008 as staged reading by Break-A-Leg Productions at Elebash Recital Hall, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center in New York City; directed by Christopher Bellis, with actors Phil Garfinkel, Scott Glascock, Larry Swansen

Atomic  Cinema

	"Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination On Film" [2001] by Jerome F. Shapiro Routledge 9x5¼ pb [11/2001] for $29.95 Routledge 9¼x6¼ library hardcover [11/2001] for $160.00 {sic}
	"The Atomic Bomb In Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays - Illustrated" [2015] Edited and largely written by Matthew Edwards Kindle Edition from McFarland & Co. [7/2018] for $16.49 McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [6/2015] for $35.00

"Atomic Testing: Declassified" [2007] St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD set [6/2007] 3 disks - out of prodn/used 37 short features including "A is For Atom"; "A New Look At The H-Bomb"; "About Fallout"; "The Atom & Biological Science"; "The Atom Strikes!"; "Atomic Alert"; "Atomic Weapons Tests: Trinity Through Buster-Jangle"; "Bombproof"; "Challenge of Ideas"; "The Day Called X"; "Developing and Producing The B-61"; "Duck and Cover"; "Fallout: When and How To Protect Yourself Against It"; "Flash of Darkness"; "The House In The Middle"; "Information Program Within Public Shelters"; "Let's Face It"; "The Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation"; "Military Effects Studies On Operation Castle"; "News Magazine of The Screen: Atomic Energy"; "Occupying A Public Shelter"; "Operation Crossroads"; "Operation Cue" [1955]; "Operation Cue" [1964]; "Operation Hardtack: Part 1 - Basic Effects"; "Operation Hardtack: Part 2 - High Altitude Tests"; "Operation Doorstep"; "Operation Upshot-Knothole"; "Our Cities Must Fight"; "Radiological Defense"; "Survival Under Atomic Attack"; "Tale of Two Cities"; "Target You"; "This Is Not A Test"; "Town of Times"; "Warning Red"; "What You Should Know About Biological Warfare"; "You Can Beat The A-Bomb"; plus bonus items including radio programs and photo & poster galleries "Atomic Testing Two-Disk Set" [2007] contains 21 short films selected from the larger package above St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD set [9/2007] 2 disks for $13.99

for more Atomic Cinema (propaganda, documentaries, dramatizations, animated films, etc.) visit
Spirit of America's Atomic Film Festival Page

Atomic  U.S.A.  History  Timeline XVIIIth & XIXth Century 1789: German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth of Berlin, Germany discovered the element uranium {atomic number 92}, named after the recently-discovered seventh planet. 1895 Nov 8: German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen [1845-1923] produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays. 1898 April 12: Polish physicist and chemist Marie Sklodowska-Curie [1867-1934] of Paris, France published her first paper on radioactivity, with the help of Prof. Gabriel Lippmann. 1898 July: Marie Curie and her husband Pierre published a paper announcing the discovery of the radioactive element polonium {atomic number 84}. 1898 Dec 26: Marie Curie and her husband Pierre published a paper announcing the discovery of a second new radioactive element {atomic number 88}, which they named radium. XXth Century thru World War II 1920s: Ailing plant worker Grace Fryer decided to sue U.S. Radium over injuries from unsafe work conditions while painting radium-228 onto watch and clock dials. It took her two years to find a lawyer, then the slow-moving courts held out for months. At their first appearance in court on January 1928, five factory workers – Grace Fryer, Edna Hussman, Katherine Schaub, and sisters Quinta McDonald & Albina Larice were parties to the suit. News media gave them continued attention, and dubbed them 'The Radium Girls'. The case was settled before going to a jury, with each plaintiff given $10,000 up front and $600 per year and $12 a week for the rest of their lives {2017 dollars equivalent $143,000 and $8,600 and $190 respectively}, as well as full coverage of all medical & legal expenses. 1934: Enrico Fermi and a team of scientists at the University of Rome reported that they had discovered element 94, at first called hesperium. 1937: Five women suffering from radiation sickness found an attorney that would represent them against former employer Radiant Dial in front of the Illinois Industrial Commission (I.I.C.); in the spring of 1938, the I.I.C. ruled in favor of the women, but Radiant Dial had shut down and disappeared. Worker safety rules were strengthened in Illinois. 1940 Dec 14: The element plutonium {atomic number 94} was first produced and isolated at U.C. Berkeley; the matter was kept secret because plutonium's radioactive nature made a nuclear fission weapon theoretically possible. 1942 Dec 2: First demonstration of an artificially-created and self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago.   1943 March 9: The U.S. military gave residents of Hanford, Washingtom 30-day condemnation notices to remove them from the site of a planned plutonium production facility for the Manhattan Project; today, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the largest nuclear contamination site in the United States. 1945 July 16: The first atomic explosion in history occurred at Trinity Test Site at White Sands Missile Range [est. 1942] in New Mexico. 1945 Aug 6: The U.S. dropped a 20-kiloton atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (killing an estimated 140,000 people). 1945 Aug 9: The U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (killing an estimated 74,000 people). XXth Century after World War II 1945 Aug 21: American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally triggered a nuclear radiation event in a lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico; he died 25 days later. 1946 May 21: Canadian physicist Louis A. Slotin accidentally triggered a nuclear radiation event in a lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico; he died nine days later. 1946 July 1: Operation Crossroads Alpha above-ground atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. 1946 July 25: Operation Crossroads Baker underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. 1950 Jan 31: President Truman announced that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb. 1951 Jan 27: Atomic testing began in the Nevada desert as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. 1951 March 6: The trial of accused atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg began. 1951 March 29: The Rosenbergs were convicted of espionage charges, as was co-defendent Morton Sobell. 1951 April 5: Convicted atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman for espionage (they were executed in June 1953); co-defendent Morton Sobell was sentenced to 30 years in prison (he was released in 1969). 1952 Feb 26: Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb. 1952 April 22: The first nuclear explosion shown live on network television, as a 31-kiloton bomb was dropped to the Nevada desert from a U.S.A.F. B-50 Superfortress. 1952 Nov 1: U.S. Operation Ivy Mike exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. 1953 March 17: Atomic test blast at Yucca Flat, Nevada  •  watch raw footage [11:13] online at YouTube with General Wm. M. 'Bill' Hoge 1953 June 19: The Rosenbergs were executed at sundown in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. 1954 Jan 21: Launch of the first nuclear submarine U.S.S. Nautilus in Groton, Connecticut. 1954 March-April: Operation Castle in the South Pacific - 7 detonations 1954 May 23: The A.E.C Personnel Security Board 'witch hunt' proceeding voted 2 to 1 not to restore the security clearance of atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67]  •  read 2020 article at Famous Trials website 1956 May-July: Operation Redwing in the South Pacific - 17 detonations 1956 May 21: The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean. 1957 April 29: Dedication of the first military nuclear power plant, the SM-1 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. 1957 July 29: Founding of the International Atomic Energy Agency. 1957 Sept 19: First U.S. underground nuclear test occurred in the Nevada desert. 1957 Dec 2: Start-up of America's first full-scale commercial nuclear power facility at the 60-megawatt Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania; operation ended in 1982. 1958 Jan 31: A U.S.A.F. B-47 bomber in Morocco caught fire during a practice takeoff; the jet fuel burned for seven hours, melting the aircraft and its H-bomb payload into a heap of radioactive slag. 1958 April-August: Operation Hardtack I in the South Pacific - 35 detonations. 1958 Nov 4: A U.S.A.F. B-47 bomber at Dyess AFB (Abilene, Texas) caught fire during takeoff; only one nuclear bomb casing on board exploded, with some minor tritium contamination at the site. Late 1958: The Mark 28 (or B28) hydrogen bomb was ordered retired, due to potential for detonation in an accident; the last units were retired in 1991, but are still in existence. 1959 March 11: A U.S.A.F. B-47 bomber in Georgia jettisoned an unarmed nuclear bomb casing above a rural area; the conventional explosives in the device destroyed a residence, produced a 55-foot crater, and injured several people. 1959 July: Santa Susana Field Laboratory reactor core breach incident, near Los Angeles, California. 1959 Oct 15: A U.S.A.F. B-52 bomber from Mississippi collided with a KC-135 tanker during refueling over Kentucky; eight men died, both aircraft crash landed, and the two damaged nuclear bombs were recovered and dismantled. 1960 Feb 13: France exploded its first atomic bomb, in the Sahara Desert. 1961 Jan: National Reactor Testing Station meltdown in Idaho Falls, Idaho. 1961 Jan 24: A U.S.A.F. B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons suffered structural failure and attempted to land at Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina; the havoc of disintegration loosened the two bombs, one parachuted to safety, the other smacked into a swamp; stories vary, but the tail was recovered at 22 feet, and work crews quit at 55 feet due to uncontollable ground water flooding; the government bought the land to prevent any nearby development. 1962 June 30: Bluestone atomic test at Christmas Island in the South Pacific. 1963 April 10: The nuclear-powered submarine U.S.S. Thresher sank during deep-sea-diving tests off Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 129 officers & crew & civilians lost their lives. 1965 Aug: The acetylene torch of a worker cut a high-pressure hydraulic line in a Titan II missile silo near Searcy, Arkansas resulting in a fire and depletion of oxygen; 53 people died, mostly civilian repairmen. 1966 Jan 17: U.S.A.F. B-52 bomber carrying four unarmed Mark 28 H-bombs collided with a KC-135 tanker plane during refueling and both planes blew up over the coastal town of Palomares, Spain; seven airmen died, two bombs exploded on land, third bomb recovered on land next day; fourth H-bomb recovered from bottom of ocean four months later. 1966 Oct: Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generator meltdown in Michigan. 1967 June 17: Communist China successfully tested its first thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb at the Lop Nor Test Site in northwest China. 1968 Jan 21: U.S.A.F. B-52 bomber carrying four unarmed Mark 28 H-bombs crash-landed on sea-ice near Thule AFB in Greenland, detonating conventional explosives inside the bombs. 1968 April 26: The U.S. exploded a one-megaton nuclear device called 'Boxcar' beneath the Nevada desert. 1968 May 22: Nuclear-powered submarine U.S.S. Scorpion sank in the Atlantic with 99 men aboard. 1968 July 1: Signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by U.S.A, Britain, Soviet Union and nearly 60 other countries. 1968 Aug 24: France exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific, making them the world's fifth thermonuclear power. 1970 March 5: The Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. 1978 Aug 24: A Titan II missile in its silo outside Rock, Kansas began leaking propellant; one U.S.A.F. sergeant was killed, an airman died later from lung injuries sustained in the spill. 1979 March 16: Release of the feature film "The China Syndrome", with merely decent box-office results; the Three Mile Island disaster 12 days later made the film a blockbuster. 1979 March 28: Partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. 1979 July 16: Biggest nuclear radiation accident in U.S. history (bigger than Three Mile Island) when 100 million gallons of nuclear waste spilled at Church Rock, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation and flowed down the Rio Puerco river (and was largely ignored by all media). { Wikipedia } 1979 Nov 9: A technician loaded a test tape into the computer system at N.O.R.A.D., but failed to flag it as test mode. False reports were sent to command centers around the world. P.A.C.A.F. followed procedure and ordered nuclear-armed planes into the air, while S.A.C. did not; both were certain that direct reports proved the information from N.O.R.A.D. to be false. 1980 Sept 19: A 6-pound tool rolled off a platform and punctured the Stage I fuel tank of a Titan II missile in its silo near Damascus, Arkansas causing the missile to collapse; the entire missile exploded a few hours later, killing a U.S.A.F. airman, injuring 21 employees, and destroying the silo; the on-board nuclear warhead was thrown 200 yards but did not detonate. 1982: Shutdown of America's first commercial nuclear power facility at Shippingport, Pennsyl-vania after 25 years of use. 1982 July: The U.S. Air Force began deactivation of the aging Titan II I.C.B.M. system, originally scheduled for 1971. The last silo was deactivated in May 1987, and the last missile was scrapped in 2008. 1984 Sept: Browns Ferry Nuclear Generator, Alabama shutdown. 1986 April: Chernobyl Nuclear Generator meltdown in Russia (Ukraine); final shutdown was in December 2000. 1987 Dec: Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generator in New York shut down. 1996 Feb: Waterford Nuclear Generator in Connecticut shut down. 2000 Jan: A.B.B. Group of Switzerland contracted to deliver $200 million in equipment & services for two light-water nuclear reactors at Kumho, on North Korea's east coast in January 2000; the reactors are capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium. Donald Rumsfeld was at that time on the board of A.B.B.; he left that position in January 2001 to become Secretary of War for the Bush administration.   { 2003 news article } 2000 Dec 15: The long-troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was shut down completely. XXIst Century 2006: The Air Force shipped Minuteman III missile nose cone assemblies to Taiwan, where they sat for two years before the Air Force discovered the error. 2007 Aug 29-30: Six nuclear-armed AGM-129 cruise missiles were loaded onto U.S.A.F. B-52 bombers at Minot AFB in North Dakota and flown to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana; they were not supposed to contain their nuclear cores, which were effectively missing for 36 hours. 2008 May 23: A fire in a Minuteman III missile silo at Warren AFB in Wyoming went undetected for five days. The Investigation Board Report [dated Nov 2008] determined that faulty installation of modifications to a backup power battery charger (with other factors) was the primary cause. 2009 Aug: an inspection by the Air Force Audit Agency of storage facilities at Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls, Montana found that nuclear weapons components were incorrectly tracked or recorded; the failure was assigned to the Air Materiel Command, not to the resident Missile Wing. 2010 Nov 20: A hardware failure at Warren AFB in Wyoming prevented communication with 50 Minuteman III missile silos; backup systems took over immediately, but the problem persisted for almost an hour. 2011 March 11: Earthquake and tsunami flooded two Japanese nuclear power plants – with two large explosions and leakage of radiation into the sea and into the air – at Fukushima I Nuclear Generator (built in 1971 at Okama). That location is still a mess as-of late 2016. 2012 July 28: An 82-year-old nun and two helpers breached security at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Sister Megan Rice was sentenced in February 2014 to 35 months in federal prison on charges of misdemeanor trespassing, felony destruction of property, and (much more serious) acts of sabotage – for spray-painting biblical verses on the outside walls of the building! (Cost for removal estimated at $1,000.) The true offense was revealing the atrocious security at Oak Ridge: when guards discovered the breach, the peaceful invaders were singing protest songs and offered to 'break bread' with their captors. 2013 Aug: The 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom AFB near Great Falls, Montana failed its safety and security inspections; a subsequent investigation into drug use found that officers had cheated on proficiency tests. The following year, nine officers were relieved of their commands, and the commanding officer resigned. 2014 Feb 14: Radiation leakage was discovered outside the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant {WIPP} deep geological repository for nuclear waste licensed/certified in New Mexico. Operations were immediately shut down; 17 employees showed radiation contamination and a pile of drums containing nuclear waste were found in a corroded condition; careful recovery work began in May but is still incomplete in late 2016. 2015 May 9: A transformer fire at the Indian Point Energy Center nuclear energy plant in Buchanan, New York leaked thousands of gallons of fuel oil into the Hudson River; one of the three nuclear units was shut down as a precaution, nuclear material was not involved, the event was an environmental incident. 2017 May 9: The roof of one of the tunnels used to store nuclear material at the Hanford Site in Washington State collapsed, no radiation was released. The hole was quickly filled in with 53 truckloads of soil. 2017 July 13: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is recertified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and remains in full compliance with applicable E.P.A. regulations for transuranic radioactive waste disposal. (Recovery took three years and five months.) 2018 March 31: FirstEnergy Solutions, a FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary that operates nuclear and coal-fired power plants, filed for bankruptcy; they had earlier announced plans to close three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania within the next three years. The move signals the Akron-based parent company’s plan to get out of the power producing business and concentrate on supplying electricity to about 6 million customers in MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA & WV. 2018 Sept 10-11: The first of hundreds of consignments of allegedly radioactive mud from the Somerset coast (adjacent to the Hinkley Point nuclear power station) was deposited off of the resort town of Penarth, Wales under cover of darkness; each shipload is about 2,000 tons. 2018 September: Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence limited access by road to the Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station [online 1975] near Southport on the coast of North Carolina; the power station is just 20 feet above sea level, and both nuclear reactors were shut down prior to the arrival of the hurricane. The  Year  2 0 2 0 2020 April 30: Reactor #2 at the Indian Point Energy Center nuclear energy plant in Buchanan, New York was permanently shut down; Reactor #3 will be shut down in April 2021. 2022 February: Dictator Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian Army to attack Ukraine; shelling and rocket attacks jeopardized security and safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (Europe's largest), the decommissioned nuclear plant at Chernobyl, and Ukraine's second-largest nuclear plant in Yuzhnoukrainsk. 2023 Mar 16: 2½ tons of yellowcake uranium concentrate is missing from an unspecified site in Libya that was inspected this week by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency; the ten missing drums "may present a radiological risk as well as nuclear security concerns". 2023 May 9: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued Holtec International a license to operate a facility in New Mexico that will temporarily store nuclear waste from power plants across the country; this comes after a bill that was passed in this year's New Mexico legislative session that blocks any operation of nuclear waste storage in the state. 2023 March 6: For the first time since 2016, a new nuclear reactor in the U.S. reached the stage where it’s begun splitting atoms. The Vogtle Reactor Unit 3 in Georgia reached criticality for the first time; the unit was connected to the grid on April 1 and entered commercial operation on July 31. 2023 March STATUS: There are currently 93 nuclear reactors operating in the U.S. that together generate 20% of the nation’s electricity (new nuclear projects have slowed down dramatically since the accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island in 1979). The  Year  2 0 2 4 2024 Feb 14: Vogtle Reactor Unit 4 in Georgia reached criticality for the first time; the unit was connected to the grid on March 1. 2024 Sunday April 7: A Russian drone attack damaged the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine; The International Atomic Energy Agency called the strike 'a serious incident (with) potential to undermine the integrity of the reactor's containment system' but stressed that the damage did not compromise nuclear safety.

Los  Alamos,  New  Mexico
&  The  Manhattan  Project

Atomic U.S.A. - Los Alamos, New Mexico & The Manhattan Project Pages
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Manhattan Project entry at Wikipedia
{official} Interactive History of the Manhattan Project
G.E. Nordell's Travel Links for Los Alamos, NM area
Los Alamos [NM] Historical Society & Museum

physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore

Spirit of America Bookstore's J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67] Page

B Reactor Museum at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Richland, Washington
B Reactor Museum Association [est. 1990]
B Reactor 60th Anniversary keynote address by Richard Rhodes on October 9th, 2004
B Reactor 70th Anniversary keynote address by Del Ballard on September 26th, 2014

	"At Work In The Fields of The Bomb" [1987] Photographs and Text by Robert Del Tredici HarperCollins Perennial 11x8½ pb [11/87] out of print/50+ used HarperCollins 11x8½ hardcover [11/87] out of print/many used
	"On The Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of The Hanford Nuclear Site" [orig 1992, rev 2007] by Michele Stenehjem Gerber, Introduction by John M. Findlay Bison Books 9x6 3rd edition pb [7/2007] for $15.56
	"Atomic Harvest: Hanford and The Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal" [1993] by Michael D'Antonio, Foreword by Stewart Udall Crown Books 9x6¼ hardcover [10/93] out of print/40+ used
	"The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of The Women Who Helped Win World War II" [2013] by Denise Kiernan The town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee was created from nothing in 1942, grew to 75,000 residents by the end of World War II, and yet did not appear on any maps until 1949. Journalist author Kiernan interviewed 80- and 90-year-old women who worked to enrich uranium for atomic bombs without knowing the purpose of their very secret war efforts. Kindle Edition from S&S/Touchstone [3/2013] for $11.04 Touchstone 9x6¼ hardcover [3/2013] for $15.88

http://www.amazon.com/City-Behind-Fence-Tennessee-1942-1946/dp/0870493094/
http://www.amazon.com/Oak-Ridge-TN-Images-America/dp/0738541702/
http://www.amazon.com/At-Work-Atomic-City-Tennessee/dp/1572333243/

Julius  &  Ethel  Rosenberg

In 1950, Sgt. David Greenglass, a former machinist at Los Alamos, confessed to having passed secret information to Russian agents. Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, he claimed that her husband, Julius, had convinced Ethel to recruit Greenglass while on a visit in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1944 and that Julius had also passed secrets. The trial of the Rosenbergs began on 6 March 1951; they were convicted on March 29th and were sentenced to death on April 5th. After many appeals, the couple were executed at sundown on 19 June 1953 in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. The Rosenbergs' two sons Robert & Michael (aged 10 and 16), were adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife, and the boys assumed the Meeropol surname.

details of the Rosenberg atomic secrets spy case were cut to its own page in Fall 2015: click here

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