Manhattan Project Veterans Commemorate the End of WWII
The official Japanese surrender on August 14, 1945 marked the end of WWII. For many Manhattan Project and war veterans, this was a moving and momentous day in American history. Sixty-five years later in different cities across the country, veterans and their families gathered to remember the history , share their personal experiences, and celebrate the end of WWII.
Atomic
Heritage Foundation President Cindy Kelly appeared on C-SPAN's
Washington Journal Saturday
morning, August 14, 2010 on the anniversary of Japanese surrender and
the official end of WWII. During
the 45-minute program, Cindy spoke about Truman’s decision to drop the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well
as the environmental and health effects of the bomb. C-SPAN showed
footage from the Army's long-classified documentary films of the
aftermath of the bombs and clips of President Truman and J. Robert
Oppenheimer. A national audience commented and asked questions about
the
Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb and its impact. To see the footage
from the
program, please visit C-SPAN’s video archive .
C-SPAN TV Program on 65th Anniversary of Japanese Surrender
To commemorate the end of World
War II, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal will have a live program about the dropping
of the first atomic bombs that brought about the Japanese surrender. Atomic
Heritage Foundation President Cindy Kelly is one of the guests invited to participate.
The Washington Journal is broadcast from 7 AM to 10 AM every day. Check the Washington
Journal schedule online at C-SPAN.org for the time of this session.
Tad Daley’s new book Apocalypse
Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World discusses the threat
of nuclear weapons and the necessity for their abolition in an illuminating way.
The NYT published an obituary on Manhattan Project veteran Arnold Kramish today, July 16, 2010. Kramish passed away on June 15 in Washington at the age of eighty-seven. More on his life may be read here.
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Atomic Story of the Week
People literally left their shoes in the mud sometimes. They would step in the mud and they would pull their foot out and there would be no shoe on it, and they’d just keep going. So when they’d have dances at the tennis courts women would show up with these big boots and then take the boots off with all the mud and then slip on the golden sandals and away they’d go. Women had an incredible ability to sort of float above all the dust and mud and look gorgeous all the time, where the rest of us were kind of wallowing in what was there.
THEODORE ROCKWELL, OAK RIDGE
Did You Know?
"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them." (J. Robert Oppenheimer, Scientific Director, Manhattan Project)
