J. Samuel Walker

HistorianWashington, DC

Expert

Listen to J. Samuel Walker’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

J. Samuel (“Sam”) Walker is the former historian of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the author of Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan. He is also the author of five books on the history of regulating nuclear power, including Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective and The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States.

Related Profiles

Avner Cohen

Israel

Avner Cohen is an Israeli-American historian and a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

Patricia Cox Owen

Washington, DC

Patricia Cox Owen joined the Manhattan Project in 1942, where she worked as a secretary for General Groves on the fifth floor of the New War building in Washington, D.

George Weil

Chicago, IL

George Weil (1907-1995) was an American physicist. Weil was born in 1907 in New York City. He graduated from Harvard College in 1929 and then went on to earn a master’s and Ph.

Roger Cloutier

Oak Ridge, TN

Roger Cloutier was born in North Attleborough, Massachusetts in 1930. After serving in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, he pursued a career in health physics at the University of Massachusetts and University of Rochester.