The Hanford History Project at Washington State University Tri-Cities is pleased to announce its upcoming conference, “Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World.”
The Manhattan Project and its Cold War aftermath proved to be a watershed moment in American—and indeed global—history. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world would never be the same again. Yet only now, nearly three-quarters of a century later, are we beginning fully to understand the cataclysmic effects of that seminal event. With the ongoing declassification of governmental records, increased access to historical archives, and the recent creation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP), the time is right for a historical reconsideration of the key roles, decisions, outcomes and effects of this critical moment in history.
Please join us March 15 – 18 as we reflect upon 75 years of a nuclear world with scholars from across the country, National Park Service representatives, and historians and community activists from each of the three MPNHP sites (Hanford, Los Alamos, NM, and Oak Ridge, TN). Keynote speakers include historical preservationist Una Gilmartin (project lead on the restoration of the Washington Monument and Hanford’s White Bluffs’ Bank), author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation and Command and Control), and former Hanford engineer and Washington state Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken (Plume).
For more information contact Jillian at 509-372-7447 or visit https://tricities.wsu.edu/hanfordhistory.
To learn more about the conference, or to register, go to https://www.cm.wsu.edu/ehome/220098/501356.
