William Spindel

ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Oak Ridge, TNTrinity Site

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranScientistSpecial Engineer DetachmentTrinity Test Eyewitness

Listen to William Spindel’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

William Spindel was a member of the Special Engineer Detachments at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos. Spindel worked in a group that helped make coatings for the implosion bomb. He witnessed the Trinity Test and made the acquaintance of David Greenglass, a notorious Soviet spy, who tried to convince Spindel to engage in espionage.

William Spindel c. 1944

Spindel (right)

Spindel (top row, center)

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