U.S. atom bomb sites to be added as national parks
It's that time of the election cycle again. Fundraising winners and losers are starting to separate from the pack. One Colorado congressman, Scott Tipton, seems to be drawing the wrong kind of attention, as The Washington Post Sunday named him as one of the quarter's losers, raising only about half what fellow Colorado freshman Cory Gardner raised. What happens when a state bypasses the federal government and enacts its own immigration laws? It's well known by now that Arizona lost substantial convention business and has racked up huge legal bills defending the state's laws. Those facts have not stopped other states from following suit. Alabama, where the new laws are slated to take effect in […]By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — America’s next national park could be a site commemorating the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
“The secret development of the atomic bomb in multiple locations across the United States is an important story and one of the most transformative events in our nation’s history,” said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, announcing last week that he will recommend the establishment of a new historic park site to Congress.
“The Manhattan Project ushered in the atomic age, changed the role of the United States in the world community, and set the stage for the Cold War,” Salazar added in the press release.
At the direction of Congress, The National Park Service conducted a special resource study on several Manhattan Project sites for possible inclusion in the National Park System. The study was released to Congress last week. It recommends that the best way to preserve and interpret the Manhattan Project is for Congress to establish a national historical park at three sites where much of the critical scientific activity associated with the project occurred: Los Alamos, New Mexico; Hanford, Washington; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The legislation that authorized the study in 2004 was sponsored by Representative Doc Hastings (R-WA) and Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM).
“Once a tightly guarded secret, the story of the atomic bomb’s creation needs to be shared with this and future generations,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “There is no better place to tell a story than where it happened, and that’s what national parks do. The National Park Service will be proud to interpret these Manhattan Project sites and unlock their stories in the years ahead.
The History Of The Atom - News
“Once a tightly guarded secret, the story of the atomic bomb's creation needs to be shared with this and future generations,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “There is no better place to tell a story than where it happened,
13 July 2011 TO DOWNLOAD the MP3 of this story, click on the MP3 link in the upper right corner of the page. Double-click any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary.
Edited by John O'Brian, a professor of art history at the University of British Columbia, and visual artist Jeremy Borsos, both Canadians, "Atomic Postcards" documents a treasure trove of these Cold War relics, some which need to be seen to be believed
When Intel decided to un-fuse off a few of the goodies in the Atom cores and call it the N570, SeaMicro updated their servers. The key take home here is that the N570 is a dual core CPU with a full speed PCIe2 1x slot instead of a half speed one,
Splitting the atom. It seems like ancient history now, but there was originally carping about Warner Bros.' decision to make two movies out of Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," with skeptics seeing it as a money-grabbing move and
Atom bomb successfully tested — This Day in History — 7/16/1945 ...
Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939, when Italian emigre physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the use of fissionable materials for military purposes. That same year, Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt supporting the theory that an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had great potential as a basis for a weapon of mass destruction. In February 1940, the federal government granted a total of $6,000 for research. But in early 1942, with the United States now at war with the Axis powers, and fear mounting that Germany was working on its own uranium bomb, the War Department took a more active interest, and limits on resources for the project were removed.
Brigadier-General Leslie R. Groves, himself an engineer, was now in complete charge of a project to assemble the greatest minds in science and discover how to harness the power of the atom as a means of bringing the war to a decisive end. The Manhattan Project (so-called because of where the research began) would wind its way through many locations during the early period of theoretical exploration, most importantly, the University of Chicago , where Enrico Fermi successfully set off the first fission chain reaction. But the Project took final form in the desert of New Mexico, where, in 1943, Robert J. Oppenheimer began directing Project Y at a laboratory at Los Alamos, along with such minds as Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, and Fermi. Here theory and practice came together, as the problems of achieving critical mass-a nuclear explosion-and the construction of a deliverable bomb were worked out.
Finally, on the morning of July 16, in the New Mexico desert 120 miles south of Santa Fe, the first atomic bomb was detonated. The scientists and a few dignitaries had removed themselves 10,000 yards away to observe as the first mushroom cloud of searing light stretched 40,000 feet into the air and generated the destructive power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. The tower on which the bomb sat when detonated was vaporized.
The question now became-on whom was the bomb to be dropped? Germany was the original target, but the Germans had already surrendered. The only belligerent remaining was Japan .
A footnote: The original $6,000 budget for the Manhattan Project finally ballooned to a total cost of $2 billion.
A-bomb sites to become National Parks. No matter what one thinks of the bomb, history occurred at these sites. 
The Making of the Atom Bomb (World History): 
This day in history (1945): The Manhattan Project comes to an end with the first successful test of the atom bomb. 
This Day in History 1945: Atom bomb successfully tested, the beginning of Nuclear Arms Race that will forever change the World & Our Lives.
nice. I share this day with the birth of the nuclear age. | Atom bomb successfully tested-This Day in History-7/16/1945 The History Of The Atom - Bookshelf
The Atom in the History of Human Thought
This book is a translation from the French of a history of atomic thought and theory, from ancient Greece to the present day.From Atomos to Atom, The History of the Concept Atom
Widely acclaimed as an outstanding contribution to both science and philosophy, this classic profiles the atom's progress from Grecian philosophy to its ...The history and adventures of an atom
Smollett also draws on the imagery of the period’s scurrilous political cartoons and injects into his satire a Rabelaisian humor that makes this work perhaps ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
I will look at the multicolored picture of history through colored glasses which ... The atom consists of an extremely small, positively charged nucleus, ...Journals of Ayn Rand
And if anyone objects to our saying that, he does not deserve the name of a human being. 2. The actual history of the atomic bomb To tell ...Daily News Directory
History of atoms
The history of the study of the atomic nature of matter illustrates the thinking process that goes on in the philosophers and scientists heads. ...
Atom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense, central nucleus ... The electrons of an atom are bound to the nucleus by the electromagnetic force. ...
History Behind The Atom
The History Behind The Atom Throughout the discovery of the atom, ... The entire group of scientists who assisted in the discovery of the atom used each other's model to improve ...
History of the Atom
Chemical reactions involve reorganization of the atoms _ changes in the way they are bound together._ The atoms themselves are not changed in a chemical reaction. ...
How Atoms Work - HowStuffWorks
Article explaining what atoms are, how they are structured, and what they're made up of with diagrams and animations.