Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Dayton, Ohio is known for cash registers, Cheez-It crackers, pop top cans, and being the Birthplace of Aviation. However, the city has another important but widely unknown accolade on its long list of innovations and inventions: the scientific work done during the top-secret Dayton Project. The work

On March 26, 1943, Dorothy McKibbin reported to work at 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and learned that their employer was the secret Los Alamos Laboratory in the nearby mountains, part of the covert Manhattan Project. From her modest office, Dorothy became “gatekeeper” to Los Alamos since

In 1943 the Army cleared 2,000 people off the land for Hanford. The farmers who stayed downwind grew food in the path of its radioactive releases for forty years, told it was safe.

From the Hiroshima dome to a nuclear-powered concept car and arms treaties, a B Reactor exhibit asks how to handle the promise and danger of nuclear technology.