National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Benjamin Bederson, a New York native, was selected to serve in the Special Engineering Detachment during the Manhattan Project.
Amanda Stein was a research assistant in the Chemistry Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
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.
