Project Alberta

Clifford worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. 

Victor A. Miller was a Lieutenant in the US Navy who went to Tinian Island as a part of Project Alberta. 

Gunnar Thornton was a nuclear physicist and engineer that served in the Special Engineer Detachment (SED) at Los Alamos and on Project Alberta in Tinian. Thornton was recruited into the Manhattan Project straight out of Harvard. At Los Alamos, Thornton worked on the Special Engineer Detachment as an assistant to Commander Francis Birch, testing the […]

Edward C. Stephenson served in Project Alberta and the United States Naval Reserves.

Theodore Perlman was an American engineer working at the Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project. He was 23 when he took part in the deadly “tickling the dragon’s tail” experiment with Louis Slotin. He only received 7 rads of radiation from the accident and survived without showing any clinical or laboratory evidence of radiation […]

George T. Reynolds was an American physicist and a Naval officer during the Manhattan Project. Reynolds was born in Trenton, NJ on May 27, 1917. He received a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in 1939 and a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1943. After receiving his Ph.D., Reynolds was commissioned as an ensign in the US […]

Wesley R. Prohs served in the United States Naval Reserve. He also worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

Thomas H. Olmstead worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Olmstead also worked at Los Alamos.

Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He worked on the X-Unit and helped assemble the Fat Man bomb before the bombing […]

Eugene L. Nooker worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also served in the Special Engineer Detatchment (SED) at Los Alamos.