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Mesa County Oral History Meeting: Witness to History: From the Atom to the Bomb and Beyond In-Person

Dr. Russ Whorlton, aka Mr. B61, spent 52 years working and later consulting at Los Alamos Labs as a nuclear weapons engineer from1960 to 2012. We will learn about the history of the science that enabled the Manhattan Project, about the Manhattan Project, and Whorton's personal experience testing and refining nuclear weapons. Reed Worlton's had a front row seat to the events of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the wars in the Middle-east.

Date:
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Time Zone:
Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Central Library Community Room
Library:
Central Library
Categories:
  Adult  
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