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Ekkebus talked about the World War Ii Nuclear Weapons Program known as the Manhattan Project, the programs aftermath and the impact on the Main Development facility in oak ridge, tennessee he focused on the years 1945 to 1950. The American Museum of science and energy and oak ridge hosted this event. Thank you very much. Please to be here in the American Museum of science and energy. The talk tonight is focusing on the first five years after the war. A great many changes have occurred. Im including what i consider some of the less frequent he mentions topics of this. There we have images of the beta cal you trond and the top, jackson square, a great high and the sppy valley 50 plant and steam plant at the kate when he five site. K 25 site. The theme of this time is change. There was a change from the army corps of engineers to the Atomic Energy commission both leaders and goals. There was change in the town. And labor, congress, the Atomic Energy act, there is the search for spies that
Continues. Next we visit the Sheridan County museum to learn about the impacts coal mining has had on the area. The history of coal mining has a place in the geological past of wyoming. At various times throughout this areas history, before it became a state, most people might not realize that looking at wyoming nowadays, but wyoming used to be subtropical to tropical regions and at one point, we were actually an ocean. All of that has factored into the deposits of fossil fuels within the state, whether they be natural gas, oil, coal, and so, that prehistory sets the stage for modernday sheridan and the story of coal here. In 1880, some of the first outcroppings of coal are discovered on private lands. The landowners at that time discovered, especially if the seams were open, that they could not only mine the coal for their personal usage, weather in outbuildings or in their homes, but they also began the business of taking that coal and they would offer it for delivery to residents of
The final elements of a deal are unknown. Its very hard to predict at this stage but however i think theres widespread agreement among u. S. Nuclear experts that the general contours of a good deal with established limits on irans programs that, taken together, would limit the size of the stockpile of enriched uranium at the number of centrifuges that iran could keep to ensure that this combination would leave iran approximately one year away from being able to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb. It would also be modifications to the fordow facility into a research into the site and modifications to the arak heavywater reactor to make sure it is no longer capable to produce the amount of plutonium necessary to make a nuclear weapon. In addition to these account for proliferation benefits, preventing and Iran Nuclear Weapon would also result in another key benefit, the heading off of the regional arms race. It also would serve to strengthen the global nonproliferation sys
And me apollo starts the final american push to the moon. Failure on this flight would all but finish u. S. Chances of reaching the moon by the end of next year. Five, four, we have ignition. On the basis of the spectacular success of apollo seven, it will be possible for the next mission, apollo eight, three americans, in orbit around the moon, on christmas. I think we have some late word just arriving. And interrupt to bring this to you. This is the latest disclosure in the report from National Civil defense headquarters in washington. It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. I saw night of the living dead at a drivein movie theater. And i saw a zombie film before, but this is the zombie movie that creates the zombie movie. It was so gritty. It was in black and white. There were no recognizable stars, and it was as terrifying a film as id ever seen. And what the hell, the lead characters black, which was an