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Julie Melton

ChildLos Alamos, NM

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Julie Melton Listen to Julie Melton’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Julie Melton is an author and expert on civil society, development, and democratization. The daughter of Manhattan Project historian David Hawkins and Frances Hawkins, the founder of the nursery school at Los Alamos, she was a small child at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

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