Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

James P. Murray

Security OfficerLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

James Murray was a security officer at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He led a plainclothes operation under the pseudonym Paul Sheridan, and suspected J. Robert Oppenheimer of having communist sympathies. 

Related Profiles

Robert E. Breneman

Los Alamos, NM

E. W. Kyger

Hanford, WA

Daniel N. Koshland

Chicago, IL

Daniel N. Koshland was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

M. T. Payne

Y-12 Plant

M. T. Payne worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.