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Enjoyed the morning programs. We are now in for some additional treats this afternoon. This section is called gross of the Manhattan Project. And i sadly i am not sad about filling in, but im sad that denise, the author of the of the girls of the atomic city cannot be here today. And that her book reached the New York Times bestsellers list when it came out and it has captivated people with its story of the women in world war ii while working on this topsecret project in oak ridge. And one of the girls, she featured nine girls, is with us this afternoon. And that is rosemary move lane Rosemary Lane. Three of them three of the girls that are the nine major characters, or not characters, but the people she focused on in her book, are on the voices of the Manhattan Project website. We were able to take interviews with them. So you can read the book and listen and see them on a website. Ms. Black is one i would like to remember, who was a very, very dear and such an enthusiast for preservi
Cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in august 1940 5, 70 years ago, American Forces dropped two atomic bombs over japan. One in nagasaki, the other in hiroshima. Benjamin 10 minutes, recalls being sent to los alamos, new mexico to work on the Manhattan Project. Completely unaware of his function at los alamos, he began working on designing the atomic bombsignition switches. He also discusses the atmosphere of secrecy and the scientists recruited to work there, many of whom went on to have noteworthy careers, including several nobel prize winners. But first, Cynthia Kelly discusses the origins and purposes of their oral history collection. What is the voices of the Manhattan Project . Ms. Kelly the voices of the Manhattan Project is a website that contains 300 oral histories. And we hope someday will be the central repository for the memories of the veterans.
Have noteworthy careers including several nobel prize winners. Fromirst, Cynthia Kelly the Atomic Heritage Foundation, discusses the origins and purposes of their oral history collection. The voices of the Manhattan Project is a website that contains 300 oral histories and we hoped someday will be the central repository of the memories of the Manhattan Project veterans. Tell us about the Manhattan Project itself. It was the effort in world war ii by the United States and its allies, primarily Great Britain and canada, to build an atomic bomb. Manhattan, just as you think, its after that island and now its part of new york city. But the project was run by the army corps of engineers, and while they toyed with a name that would be Something Like special materials project, and thought such a name would arouse suspicion, because it was sort of clumsy. Thehey follow traditions of army corps of engineers and name the project after the place where the projects headquarters were. And its headq
At the age of 91. This oral history is from the voices of the Manhattan Project, created by the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the los alamos historical society. Val i was born on a cattle ranch in northwest nebraska, 1923. Ranch. Ually born on a this is about five miles from a thele town of merriman, in sandhills of nebraska. You probably do not know anything, but they occupy 1 5th of the state. Its cattle raising country. They call it sandhills because the terrain is made out of sand. Hills are the dune. That is almost uprpure sand. Buthills are the the only thinge grown there without destroying the terrain is something that lives off the native grasses, and that is cattle. You try turning the soil lower, and is simply blows away. So, thats the sandhills dedicated to growing cattle. Purebreds. Raced upre was too smalls to support a family on raising beef cattle. He raised breeding stock. That was the enterprise i was born into. Have an older brother and sister. Both of them now dead.