Here are some of the special programs and events on the Manhattan Project developed for the 70th anniversary. First, on Tuesday, July 28, PBS aired a special two-hour program, The Bomb, with experts on the Manhattan Project, nuclear physics, the race for the bomb, and more. Richard Rhodes (above), author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is one of the experts featured. Another PBS program, Uranium: Twisting the Dragon’s Tail, also premiered in two parts on July 28 and 29. These programs are now available online.
Beginning the weekend of August 8, 2015, C-SPAN American History TV will be airing several interviews from the “Voices of the Manhattan Project” oral history collection. The series will begin with a ten-minute interview with AHF President Cindy Kelly followed by Ben Bederson, Jack Aeby, Val Fitch, and Robert Furman. The C-SPAN website should post the programming schedule soon. The videos will be available online at C-SPAN’s site and on the Voices of the Manhattan Project.
In April the documentary “Garwin” premiered. Richard Garwin helped in the design of the first successful hydrogen bomb, and has spent much of his career since working to make sure such weapons would never be needed. Garwin has advised every president from Eisenhower to Obama including on the BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico to the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan. To learn more, visit thedocumentary’s website.
Dr. Frank Settle, author of the forthcoming book “General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb,” will be speaking in Lexington, VA for the George C. Marshall Foundation on August 6.