The National Archives hosted this hourlong event. George washington was a dedicated diary archivist beginning with a record of the days temperature and weather and the notable events that day. The entry for figure 18, 1786, just before his 54th birthday is longer than most for washington, and a list today of all of my negroes. The list totaled 216 persons in the first child named, the 12yearold was a seamstress betty and only became the personal attendant of Martha Washington in 1899. The story is part of the president ial household is revealed in todays book, ties that bound founding first ladies and slaves. I will not take any more here. Other writings are available online. Founders online allows you to search across thousands of documents. Record boththe lofty and lending. Like founders online instead are history tell us much about the Founding Fathers, but to uncover information about the women of the founding era, we must dig deeper. Professor Jenkins Schwartz focuses on the men a
This was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. Dn have the name oakridge at the time. And the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. But they didnt know much about plutonium. It was an artificial element. It had to be created by man. They knew nothing about the characteristics of plutonium. Building started in february of 1943. This facility, the graphite reactor as we know it today, was starting in spring of 1943, completed by november of 1943. And came on line as the worlds first operating Nuclear Reactor and in this case, used specifically to produce tiny, tiny amounts of plutonium which were recovered and then shipped up to the laboratory which was part of the Manhattan Project in chicago. So they could be characterized up there. And other bits of plutonium that were produced here were shipped tout Los Alamos Laboratory in new m
This was set up originally in 1943 as clinton laboratories. Dn have the name oakridge at the time. And the purpose of clinton laboratories was to learn how to produce plutonium which was a radioactive element that could split and release vast amounts of energy just like some uranium can. But they didnt know much about plutonium. It was an artificial element. It had to be created by man. They knew nothing about the characteristics of plutonium. Building started in february of 1943. This facility, the graphite reactor as we know it today, was starting in spring of 1943, completed by november of 1943. And came on line as the worlds first operating Nuclear Reactor and in this case, used specifically to produce tiny, tiny amounts of plutonium which were recovered and then shipped up to the laboratory which was part of the Manhattan Project in chicago. So they could be characterized up there. And other bits of plutonium that were produced here were shipped tout Los Alamos Laboratory in new m
To her Close Friends as becky, with the lifestyle she admitted on her ministerial lifestyle. Ava was the widow of the Foreign Office official who in the 1930s applied churchill with Vital Information on german rearmament before his untimely death. Anderson did, however, accept a he continued to advise the government informally on atomic matters. He died age 76 in 1958. So then, shortly before his death, anderson fell to reminiscing about the war with j. Robert oppenheimer. Of hours, the director of the manhattan project, los alamos bomb lab. Anderson, a really sweet guy, oppenheimer recalled, had never, and im still quoting oppenheimer, had never been reconciled to the fact that bores counsel had not been followed by churchill or roosevelt in 1944. Nor anderson might have added, his own counsel. I think however one regards the atomic aspect of sir John Andersons career, and his outlook does now seem idealistic, unrealistic, naive, even. Knowing what we know about stalins nuclear ambiti
There are 50 heads of state gathered here in washington, trying to deal with the question of Nuclear Terrorism and how to secure the highly enriched. Lements around the world that is a nuclear reactors, that is in hospitals, universities, research centers. There is the possibility of dirty bombs, the possibility of terrorists getting a hold of this. That is a small part of the Nuclear Material out there. Most of the material is in the weapons programs. This gathering is not going to be dealing with weapons issues. You might recall that in the spring of 2009, president obama made an important speech in prague that called for nuclear abolition. One could say it was the high point of the obama presidency. It is what helped him get the nobel peace prize, which a lot of people have urged him to give back since then. We need nuclear abolition. He said the United States has to lead the effort. It is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons and warfare against another country. That