Below are articles mentioning the Atomic Heritage Foundation and our work.
August 17, 2009
Play Takes Theatergoers Back to Reagan's Nuclear Negotiations with the Soviet Union
Santa Fe New Mexican
BY JERRY DELANEY
In the unlikely venue of Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 1986, President
Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev came within a
hairsbreadth of signing an agreement to dismantle the entire nuclear
arsenals of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
But the negotiations foundered over what has turned out to be a
technical fantasy: the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars — an
idea Reagan couldn't relinquish and Gorbachev couldn't accept.
An inside look at how these historic negotiations unfolded, what
these men said in the heat of face-to-face conversations and how
ultimately this heartbreaking failure was turned into a historic
success comprises the subject of a new play by Richard Rhodes titled Reykjavik.
The play will be performed as a reading at 7 tonight at El Museo
Cultural de Santa Fe. The author, who describes the play as a work in
progress, will be in attendance to answer questions afterward.
[more]
June 30, 2009
One Busy Summer
Albuquerque Journal
BY ANDREA SCHOELLKOPF
... Recently, the National Atomic Heritage Foundation sponsored 26 teachers, mostly from New Mexico, for a four-day workshop on the Manhattan Project, primarily to help teachers meet 20th-century New Mexico history requirements.
The workshop, based at St. John's College in Santa Fe, included a day trip to Los Alamos where the teachers visited with local historians, toured Robert Oppenheimer's former home, met with veterans and retired employees from the labs, and were given access to historical sites inside the labs. [more - p. 1 and 2]
June 13, 2009
Teachers Gain Insight into Atomic Era's N.M. Impact
Santa Fe New Mexican
BY JOHN SENA
On Friday morning, Joseph Suina, the former governor of Cochiti Pueblo, told a group of teachers a story about the early days of Los Alamos National Laboratory they'd never get from a history textbook.
When he was a boy growing up in the 1950s, Suina said, his people used to conduct a weeklong ceremony that included taking water from a cave in the Pajarito mountains. [more]
June 12, 2009
Bringing the Manhattan Project to the Classroom
Los Alamos Monitor
BY JENNIFER GARCIA
For the first time, teachers from New Mexico and Colorado had the opportunity to immerse themselves in the history of the Manhattan Project for future use in their classrooms.
Made possible by the Atomic Heritage Foundation, the group of 25 educators spent three days in Santa Fe at St. John's College, making their way to Los Alamos where they toured various properties and absorbed information about the Manhattan Project.
The teachers have diverse plans for how they will put what they learned at the workshop to use in their classrooms... [more]
April 12, 2006
Saving Atomic History
Los Alamos Monitor
By CAROL A. CLARK
Atomic Heritage Foundation President Cynthia Kelly traveled to town from Washington, D.C., to promote the importance of preserving the Manhattan Project with business and community leaders. She stated that the AHF was especially appreciative of the ongoing support of Los Alamos National Bank and CEO Bill Enloe.
Kelly called Enloe "a pioneer leader and person of vision."
"He has been supporting our efforts since the beginning," she said. "He took a risk and sponsored us back in 2000." [more]
April 10, 2006
$500,000 - Who gets it, How should it be spent?
Knoxville News
By Bob Fowler
OAK RIDGE - In this year's mammoth federal budget, it's less than a blip on the radar screen.
But $500,000 set aside for a former uranium enrichment site has touched off a behind-the-scenes debate over who gets the money and how to spend it.
The funds are contained as an earmark to the Department of Energy's Environmental Management Program... [more]
January 3, 2006
Atomic Heritage Foundation Receives $350,000 Grant
Tri-City Herald
By Annette Cary
The Atomic Heritage Foundation has received a $350,000 grant primarily to prepare exhibits for Hanford's historic B Reactor, which supporters are working to save for a museum. The foundation hopes to have the exhibits finished in time for the 65th anniversary in 2008 of the Manhattan Project at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
The grant will be used to develop exhibit kiosks in which visitors would watch videos, as well as to provide handheld multimedia devices that visitors would carry and use to hear presentations on what they were seeing. But the foundation also wants to preserve the best of the current B Reactor tours...[more]
October 21, 2005
Preserving and Promoting Nuclear History Creating Fallout
Associated Press
By JAMES HANNAH
DAYTON, Ohio-When Christine Dull was a child, she would sing Christmas carols outside a home, not knowing that it was filled with scientists working feverishly on a top-secret project to help produce the first atomic bomb.
Called the Runnymede Playhouse, it was part of a private home in suburban Oakwood that included tennis courts and a stage. During the 1940s, scientists used the home to produce radioactive polonium, used to trigger a chain reaction that would set off the bomb... [more]
September 13, 2005
Tourists Drawn to A-Bomb Historic Sites
Great Lakes Radio Consortium
By Mary Ann Colihan
Sixty years ago, the first nuclear weapon was tested in the New Mexico desert, ushering in the dawn of the atomic age. A month later, two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. It brought World War II to a swift end. There are tourists who are interested in the history of weapons of mass destruction. They might find the historical sites of the atomic age are hard to get to and still controversial... [more]
December 8, 2004
Dayton shunned, stunned by exclusion from bomb history:
Area faces hard fight to win place in nation's park system linked to Manhattan Project
Dayton Daily News
By Jim DeBrosse
Charles Allen Thomas was one of dozens of scientists who lay in the desert sand of Alamogordo, N.M., in the predawn gloom of July 16, 1945, waiting for a frightening new era in human history to begin...[more]
November 13, 2004
Hanford B reactor now on list of potential National Park sites Park Service will rely on state and local help for maintenance
Spokane Spokesman Review
By Peter Barnes, Staff writer
WASHINGTON - The Hanford Reach reactor where engineers extracted plutonium for the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki is now on the National Park Service's list of potential historic parks. In mid-October, President Bush signed legislation allowing the Park Service to study whether the Hanford B reactor and other facilities key to the Manhattan Project should become part of a national park....[more]
April 29, 2004
The Atomic Heritage Foundation to Honor the Oppenheimer Centennial with events in Los Alamos
On June 25 and 26, 2004 in Los Alamos, NM, the Atomic Heritage Foundation is presenting "Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project," to commemorate the Oppenheimer centennial with tours, dinner and a day-long symposium of leading Oppenheimer and Manhattan Project experts....[more]
Atomic bomb labs could be parks
Albuquerque Tribune
By James W. Brosnan
The laboratories where Manhattan Project scientists once worked in secret to design and make the atomic bomb could someday be national parks tramped by curious tourists. The Senate Energy Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill by Sen. Jeff Bingaman...[more]
November 21, 2003
The Atomic Heritage Foundation Awarded Grants for Exhibits on Nuclear History in Idaho
On November 21, 2003, the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, WA informed the Atomic Heritage Foundation of its $150,000 grant to develop exhibits at the Museum of Idaho on the history of nuclear reactor development... [more]
October 28, 2003
Atomic Heritage Foundation and Los Alamos Historical Society announce agreement for J. Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project home
In a joint press statement, the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society announced today that thanks to the generosity of Helene and Bergen Suydam of Los Alamos, NM, future generations will be able to enjoy the house where J. Robert Oppenheimer lived from 1943 to 1945.... [more]
September 15, 2003
Dinner held in Richland, WA to Honor Manhattan Project Veterans Participating in the Film
Summary and Photos
A dinner was held on June 30, 2003 in Richland, Washington to honor the participants the film under production. Currently in progress, this documentary film currently in progress focuses on the mammoth engineering challenges undertaken by DuPont at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to build the world's first plutonium production reactors and other facilities during World War II.
July 30, 2003
Atomic Heritage Foundation Continues B-Reactor Documentary Filming in Delaware
The Atomic Heritage Foundation, working with funding from the DuPont Company and the Crystal Trust, both of Delaware, recently filmed several DuPont employees and family members for production of a film on the role of DuPont at Hanford.[more]
July 1, 2003
Traveling Exhibit Focuses on Manhattan Project, Its Legacy
El Defensor Chieftain
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., endorsed a grant proposal by the Atomic Heritage Foundation to develop a traveling educational exhibit focused on the Manhattan Project and its legacy. [more]
May 14, 2003
Preserving History Key to Mid-Columbia Future - Editorial
Tri-City Herald
...The Atomic Heritage workshop earlier this month was but one way that this community is working to preserve and display its history. Coming out of that workshop were recommendations for opening the B Reactor for tours and helping Richland maintain the alphabet homes -- efforts that already are under way. [more]
May 7, 2003
Preserving the Atomic Age
PostRegister
As the country talks about designing, testing and building a new generation of nuclear reactors, some took time Tuesday to pay homage to those who designed, tested and built the first nuclear reactors. [more]
May 6, 2003
Documentary Explores Idaho's Past
KPVI-TV - NBC
Eastern Idaho is recognized for being a pioneer when it comes to creating cutting-edge technology. Tonight, a documentary film called Nuclear Pioneers explores the people who helped make the first nuclear reactor in the United States and produce usable quantities of electricity. [more]
May 2, 2003
Project Aims to Preserve Atomic Age
Tri-City Herald
By Kristen Kraemer
Opening the B Reactor for regular tours and helping the city of Richland maintain the alphabet homes were just two of the 16 recommendations generated this week in an effort to preserve the properties and history of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age. [more]
April 30, 2003
Hanford Preserves Its History
KNDU-TV - NBC
President Bush wants to make sure history is preserved through a order he recently signed called ?Preserve America.? One group was granted to help preserve Hanford, Atomic Heritage Foundation...[more]
April 28, 2003
Workshop Examines Hanford's History
Agenda
Tri-City Herald
By John Stang
A two-day free public workshop on preserving Hanford's historical heritage is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Richland. The workshop is coordinated by the Atomic Heritage Foundation...[more]
April 14, 2003
Preserving Our History
Mountain Mail Express
By Ben Moffett
...Efforts to get the Trinity Site into the National Park System could arise again with the new interest in atomic and cold war history, specifically the Manhattan Project of which Trinity Site is a key part. The non-profit Atomic Heritage Foundation (www.atomicheritage.org), dedicated to preserving the history if the Manhattan Project has both New Mexico Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Pete Domenici...[more]
April 13, 2003
Initiatives Promote Heritage Preservation - Editorial
Tri-City Herald
By Darby Stapp
...The Atomic Heritage Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the history of the Manhattan Project, will hold a workshop here in early May...The Atomic Heritage Foundation effort comes at a good time, as little funding currently exists to preserve Manhattan Project buidings or history. [more]
April 8, 2003
Atomic Heritage Foundation Interviews and Films Prominent Manhattan Project Participants
The Atomic Heritage Foundation, in association with Electronic Films, Inc., recently interviewed ten Manhattan Project participants in Los Alamos, NM and Santa Fe, NM about their recollections of working on the Project and living in Los Alamos during World War II... [more]
March 27, 2003
Group Wants to Preserve Oak Ridge Historical Sites
Associated Press
OAK RIDGE (AP) -- A two-day discussion is wrapping up in Oak Ridge,
where a nonprofit group wants the Atomic Age remembered with a national
park site in the city. [more]
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