National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Elvert Theodore “Junior” Nelson was born on September 18, 1926 in Hordville, Nebraska. After graduating from Hordville High School in 1943, Junior first went to work in agriculture and later at the Ordnance Plant in Grand Island, also known as the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, which was responsible for pouring bombs and high explosive artillery […]
Father Daniel Colibraro worked in Los Alamos during the last year of the war. He eventually would go on to become a priest.
Langworthy worked in the 200 East Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Joanna Brumfiel was a stenographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
