Pacific Nuclear Tests

G. Neil Hamilton was born in Amarillo, TX on October 23, 1930 during the great recession and the sand storms of the Dust Bowl, where he worked as a cowboy on his parents small ranch. Не graduated from Amarillo High School, Amarillo Junior College and in 1953 from Texas Technical College, with a BA in […]

John F. McGillis was a 9th generation American and was born on May 18, 1910, in Seattle Washington. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in June 1930 and Graduated in June 1934. Following graduation, he was assigned to the Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga for a year, then the USS Hale for two years. […]

Charles J. Spiegl was a civilian scientist employed by the Manhattan Project. He was involved in radiation toxicology, studying the effects of radiation on animals at the Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. He also participated in the postwar nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where he was assigned to Task Group […]

Richard “Dick” Keenan served in the Navy on Kwajalein Island from January to June of 1946. He was involved with preparations for the Operations Crossroads nuclear tests. He sent letters from Kwajalein to his family, who preserved them.

Roger Stover was born in Naperville, Illinois. He spent his first eighteen years there before going to Purdue for his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Stover later went on to receive a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering also from Purdue. He then taught physics at the Illinois Institute of […]

John Francis Moynahan was a Public Relations Officer for the Manhattan Engineering District, and later worked as an international public-relations consultant. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his work on the Manhattan Project. Moynahan was born in Boston, MA, on April 11, 1912. He graduated from Boston College in 1933. In 1942, Moynahan was […]

Captain Richard “Dick” Alexander Larkin (USN) was Deputy to William Parsons at Los Alamos, beginning in June of 1945, in preparation for Parsons’ deployment to Tinian. Larkin also witnessed the Trinity Test from the “coordinating council” viewing area, located about 20 miles from ground zero. Early Life Larkin was born to Robert Blackwood Larkin and […]

Richard Garwin is an American physicist. He was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. Garwin has had a long scientific career, focused on invention, conducting research, and advising policymakers and U.S. Presidents. After earning a degree in Physics from Case Western University, Garwin went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. There, […]

Harris Mayer, born in 1921, is an American physicist. During World War II, Mayer joined the Manhattan Project at Columbia University. He first worked in a theoretical group that served as staff for physicist Harold Urey. In June of 1944, Mayer transferred to an opacity calculations group that was led by future Nobel laureate Maria […]

Richard “Dick” Money was a chemist. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, where he was introduced to the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory. He was hired by the Met Lab and sent to work for Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN, on uranium isotope separation. He went on to work for Los […]