The Atomic Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of two new "Ranger in Your Pocket" online interpretive programs on African Americans and the Manhattan Project and the environmental le

On the evening of April 12, 2019, esteemed physicist Dr. Geoffrey Chew passed away at the age of 94.

The Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) has launched a new online interpretive program, “Oak Ridge Innovations,” to explore Oak Ridge, Tennessee's legacies for science and society today.

AHF joins Oak Ridgers and Manhattan Project families in mourning the loss of our friend James Edward "Ed" Westcott, the official photographer for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Ed died on March 29, 2019 in his home in Oak Ridge at the age of 97.

Here is a roundup of interesting content published recently related to the Manhattan Project, World War II, and nuclear history: 

Cindy Kelly, founder and president of the Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF), traveled in Japan from February 7 to 22, 2019, visiting Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The purpose was to talk to Japanese government officials, museum directors, university professors, and hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) about the atomic bomb and its legacy. 

On February 28, 2019, Manhattan Project veteran Esther Green Floth passed away in Dublin, California at 96 years old. As a young woman, Floth was a secretary for General Leslie Groves in Washington, D.C.

Cynthia C. Kelly, founder and president of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, will be traveling in Japan in February to interview the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The United Nations has designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Countries around the world remember and honor the victims of the Nazi genocide.

On January 26, 1939, during the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics at the George Washington University, Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr publicly announced the splitting of the uranium atom. The resulting “fission,” with its release of two hundred million electron volts of energy, heralded the beginning of the atomic age.