News Archive

August 23, 2025 Newsletter This month the world recognized the 80th anniversary of the development and use of the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. People from around the globe gathered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and floated lanterns with messages of peace. The three Manhattan Project National Historical Park sites also commemorated the anniversary with […]

April 4, 2024 Newsletter The movie “Oppenheimer” won seven Academy Awards, creating a “Big Bang” in the media. On March 10, the BBC’s Dan Snow produced a History Hits podcast on “Oppenheimer vs Einstein,“ interviewing the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s Cindy Kelly. Japan’s NHK produced a documentary about Edgar Sengier, “Mystery Man of the A-Bomb.“ In March, “A Compassionate Spy” featured Theodore A. […]

November 2, 2021 Newsletter This issue features a recent BBC In Our Time podcast on the Manhattan Project (see website) hosted by Melvyn Bragg with Frank Close, Cameron Reed and Cynthia Kelly. This issue also pays tribute to Martin J. Sherwin, a wonderful friend of AHF who won the Pulitzer Prize with co-author Kai Bird for their biography of […]

February 5, 2021 Newsletter After mounting pressure from A. Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and other Black civil rights leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order prohibiting discrimination by the defense industry. This action opened up opportunities for hundreds of thousands. Above is a photo of workers at Hanford. In honor of Black History Month, this issue highlights […]

President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. Secretary of State John Kerry became the highest-ranking US official at the time to visit Hiroshima when he toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum on April 11, 2016. Here is a roundup of media coverage on President […]

The Los Angeles Times has an excellent article on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford, WA. Written by LA Times travel reporter Christopher Reynolds, Facing difficult questions at the Manhattan Project’s Hanford Site discusses what you will learn about and see on a tour at the Manhattan Project NHP at Hanford. Reynolds describes going on a tour […]

The Atlantic has a terrific article on the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s Manhattan Project Veterans Database project. With over 10,000 biographies and 370 oral histories, our collection of profiles and interviews grows daily. The article, written by journalist Adrienne LaFrance, focuses on Leona Woods Marshall, the top woman physicist on the project. “Though she died in 1986, you can […]

C-SPAN3’s American History TV has been airing our interviews with Manhattan Project veterans and family members from the “Voices of the Manhattan Project” collection. Be sure to watch! You can find the TV schedule here or see them on C-SPAN’s oral histories website here. Stay tuned for more! Enjoy! Among the interviews they have aired are: Peggy Bowditch, daughter of […]

With the approach of the 70th anniversaries of the Trinity test and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Manhattan Project has been a popular news topic. There were several interesting articles published in June concerning the Manhattan Project and its legacy. The blog Atlas Obscura featured Dorothy McKibbin in “Dorothy McKibbin: The Manhattan Project’s Secret […]

The New York Times (NYT) published an article this month on the public’s recent interest in photographs of the Little Boy and Fat Man bombs. As the NYT’s William Broad notes, some of the photographs have been online for years but only recently went “viral,” attracting the interest of tens of thousands of people. The websiteAlternateWars published […]