Jim Eckles

ExpertTrinity Site

Los Alamos, NM

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Listen to Jim Eckles’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Jim Eckles worked for decades for the White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office, managing open houses and tours of the Trinity site, where the world’s first nuclear test took place. He is the author of “Trinity: The Historic of an Atomic Bomb National Historic Landmark” and “Pocketful of Rockets.”

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