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August 6th, 2026 Lanterns For Peace This month, Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorate the anniversaries of the atomic bombings on August 6 and 9. Hiroshima Mayor Matsui Kazumi placed an updated list of 353,639 atomic bomb victims in the Peace Memorial Park’s cenotaph and called on the leaders of nuclear-weapons states to act: “Civil society demands the immediate […]

December 12th, 2025 The tenth anniversary of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park was on November 15, 2025. The creation of the park benefited from a great collaboration of organizations and government officials. Above, Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz shakes hands with Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell. This issue provides an update on the Manhattan Project […]

Frank Sada Menchaca was born April 3, 1919. He served as a U.S. Army Military Police soldier assigned to Military Police Detachment No. 2 at Richland, Washington, where he helped guard the Hanford Engineer Works during and after the Manhattan Project. He originally trained with Company A, 744th Military Police Battalion beginning in 1942 before […]

Emmett Ward Morey was born 17 September 1895 in Elvaston, Illinois. In 1918, he moved to Zion, Illinois with his wife Mary and had two sons, Paul and David. Emmett had worked as an accountant both before and after the war. When his youngest son, David, was in high school, Emmett moved his family to […]

Staff Sergeant Edward F. O’Mara enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942. Because of a blood condition, Army officials determined that he was not fit for combat duty. After serving at several military installations, he was assigned to Camp Luna, a training facility near Las Vegas, New Mexico. One day, his commanding officer pulled him […]

Walter S. Marsh was born in Suffern, NY in July 1919 to Archibald & Amelia Marsh.  He married his wife Alice (Perry) Marsh in approx. 1939 at 20 years old.  Walter joined the U.S. Army in May 1944 & was a part of the Special Engineers Unit in Los Alamos. He is directly quoted in […]

Philip McL. Stehle was an influential American theoretical physicist whose academic career spanned much of the mid-to-late 20th century. Born on March 3, 1919, he completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan before earning a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University with a thesis on “Star Streaming,” supervised by prominent mathematician Howard Percy “Bob” […]

August 23, 2025 Newsletter This month the world recognized the 80th anniversary of the development and use of the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. People from around the globe gathered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and floated lanterns with messages of peace. The three Manhattan Project National Historical Park sites also commemorated the anniversary with […]

This issue looks at Vannevar Bush’s legacy of Federal funding for basic scientific research as the Trump administration cuts back on funding. The Department of Energy’s Chris Wright is calling for a “Manhattan Project 2” to ensure American predominance in artificial intelligence and to jump-start a long-awaited renaissance for nuclear energy. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is at […]

December 20, 2024 Newsletter As 2024 comes to an end, nuclear power is poised for a resurgence. This issue traces the beginnings of civilian nuclear power in the USA in the decades following World War II. For twenty years, the USA led the world in developing the blueprint for nuclear power reactors. As former Chairman […]