Local coverage of the NPS study on the possibility of a Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Los Alamos, NM, Oak Ridge, TN, Hanford, WA, and Dayton, OH, after the jump. Public meetings will be held at each site in late January and early February. More information on the study can be found here.
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Phil Parker, "How Would Park Work?" Albuquerque Journal, December 29, 2009. The article may also be viewed as a PDF and as it originally appeared in print.
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Atomic Story of the Week
Groves was really an indispensable man. Looking back on it, I can’t imagine the Manhattan Project doing what they did as soon as they did as well as they did without a hard-driving absolute taskmaster in charge like General Groves. He took over in September of 1942, and though he was an expert in construction, just finished building the Pentagon, and bases of one kind or another all over the U.S., he didn’t know beans about atomic energy or about building an atomic bomb!
General Groves had the job of going around talking to these university scientists about how this incredibly difficult job of separating Uranium-235 from U-238 could possibly be done. I’m sure he was bewildered, and I’m sure when he starts talking to these PhDs, college professors who can’t talk without going to a blackboard and starting to write differential equations on the board and explaining how you integrate them! It’s just amazing that he just didn’t let that overpower him.
BILL WILCOX, OAK RIDGE
Did You Know?
Box 1663, Santa Fe, NM, was the "blind" address used for all correspondence to and from Los Alamos. during the Manhattan Project. The actual name Los Alamos was prohibited from showing up on any letters or parcels. The address shown on the birth certificates of the children born at the Los Alamos Engineers Hospital during the war years was indicated as "Box 1663."
