For over a decade, the Atomic Heritage Foundation has fought hard to preserve key Manhattan Project properties across the nation and bring WWII history to life. As part of our efforts, we have worked with with the Advisory Council on on Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, the Department of Energy, and many other groups and stakeholders to ensure that future posterity will have access to buildings that connect us to our national past. We have helped to preserve sites like the V-Site (above), where "Gadget," the first plutonium-based atomic explosive, was assembled by Manhattan Project scientists. "Gadget" was successfully tested at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, NM, on July 16, 1945.
Although we have focused our preservation efforts on the three key sites of the Manhattan Project -- Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford, we have also worked to preserve lesser known Cold War sites across the nation. Click on the accompanying city name to learn more about our preservation efforts: Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford, or click here if you want to learn more about our involvement in bringing about a Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
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