Security & Secrecy

Theresa Strottman: We are talking with Winston Dabney and we thank you very much for coming. Winston Dabney: I’m glad to be here. Strottman: Briefly to begin could you tell us when and where you were born and something about your early education. Dabney: I was born in King William County, Virginia on July 17, 1916. […]

Theresa Strottman: We are speaking at MIT with Professor French. And we thank you very much for allowing us to interview you here today. To start off the interview, we wonder if you could briefly tell us where you were born and something about your early education and training? Anthony French:  Okay, well, I was born […]

Cindy Kelly: Okay. I am Cindy Kelly from the Atomic Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. It is May 2, 2013 in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have with me Herb Depke. Could we start with you saying your full name, Herb, and spelling it?  Depke: My full name?  Kelly: Full name.  Depke: Herbert Walfred Depke, H-E-R-B-E-R-T, […]

Yvonne Delamater: We are interviewing Lawrence Antos for the Manhattan Project video and we thank you for coming here today all the way from Albuquerque. Briefly tell me when and where you were born and something about your education and training. Lawrence Antos: I was born in Berlin, Illinois just outside of Chicago. I went […]

Priscilla McMillan: Roy, you knew Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and you knew him again when you were a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Had he changed? Did he lead those two institutions differently and behave differently or the same? Roy Glauber: That is a very complicated question to answer. Oppie was […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly, the date is June 6, 2013, and we are here with Dr. Roy Glauber. And your first question is to tell me your name and spell it. Tough one, start with a tough one. Roy Glauber: I probably can even spell it! I am Roy Glauber and that is […]

Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly with Atomic Heritage Foundation and it is Wednesday, July 31, 2013 and I am with Ellen Bradbury Reid. My first question for Ellen is to please tell us your name and spell it.  Ellen Bradbury Reid: Ellen Bradbury Reid. Actually I was Ellen Wilder, and then I married John […]

Tell us your name. Irénée du Pont, Jr.: My name is Irénée du Pont, Jr. That’s spelled I-R-E-N-E-E D-U-P-O-N-T, comma junior. It’s like the girl’s name, Irene, which means peace, and Irénée is the French equivalent of the male Irene. Means peace. Tell me how you are related to Crawford Greenwalt. Du Pont: Crawford Greenwalt […]

Emily Efland: I’m Emily Efland and I am with the Atomic Heritage Foundation. Today is August 14, 2013, and we’re interviewing Marilyn Hanna.  So first, could you give me your name and spell it. Marilyn Hanna: My name is Marilyn Hanna. M-A-R-I-L-Y-N. H-A-N-N-A. Efland: And could you tell me about when you were born? Where you […]

Gladys Evans: I’m Gladys Ellen Wimberley Evans, G-L-A-D-Y-S E-L-L-E-N W-I-M-B-E-R-L-Y E-V-A-N-S.  Kelly: Terrific. Okay, now if you could start with telling us, you know, where you were born and raised and how you got to Oak Ridge. Evans: All right, well, I was raised in Sweetwater, Tennessee, which is about fifty miles from here, and […]