On June 3, 2015, the Atomic Heritage Foundation hosted a symposium on the Manhattan Project at the Carnegie Institution for Science. C-Span's American History TV attended and recorded the panels.
Video from the symposium is now available on C-Span. The television broadcast times can be found here. The panels are also available to watch on C-Span's website. Because of technical issues during setup, C-Span was only able to record the afternoon sessions. However, AHF recorded the entire symposium, as well as the Manhattan Project Reunion on June 2. We will be getting full video from the events online soon.
The panels recorded by C-Span are:
- Women of the Manhattan Project, featuring Dr. Isabella Karle and Rosemary Lane. They discuss what it was like for a woman to work on the Manhattan Project.
- Espionage and the Manhatttan Project, with historian Dr. Robert S. Norris and Manhattan Project veterans Dr. Ben Bederson and James Schoke. Norris explains the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan Project and how Soviet spies were able to infilitrate it, and Bederson and Schoke recall project workers they knew who were later discovered to be Soviet spies.
- Remembering Groves and Oppenheimer, with Dr. Robert S. Norris, author of Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man; Carolyn Lewis, granddaughter of General Groves; historians Dr. Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; and Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of Oppenheimer. They discuss the personalities, career, and legacies of Manhattan Project leaders Generall Leslie R. Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer.