PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Theresa A. Strottman
              Miller Library
              Technical Services Manager

              ph: 505 538 6355
              fx: 505 538 6063

Miller Library Presents Manhattan Project Programs

Photo Exhibit - Documentary - Lecture & Book Signing

All phases of the nuclear industry including mining, research, processing, weapons testing, and radioactive waste storage have occurred in New Mexico. To mark the 60 th anniversary of the Manhattan Project, Miller Library will sponsor two more programs from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on the next two Sundays in November, the 13 th, and 20 th. These programs will provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and members of the public to discover how military efforts to develop an atomic bomb during World War II established and stimulated the nuclear industry in New Mexico. All three events will take place in Miller Library at Western New Mexico University.

The second event, a screening of the documentary Remembering Lost Alamos: World War II, will take place November 13 th. The film featuring interviews with Manhattan Project veterans was produced by Theresa Strottman who also conducted most of the interviews and wrote the script. She will answer questions following the documentary. Strottman has published a number of articles on the Manahattan Project and contributed a chapter to Los Alamos: The Ranch School Years. Currently she is the Technical Services Manager at Western New Mexico University’s Miller Library.

The third event, a lecture by Jon Hunner, author of the recently published Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community will take place on November 20 th. Hunner’s lecture will be followed by a discussion and book signing. Besides publishing numerous articles about New Mexico and the Southwest, Hunner is an Associate Professor and Director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University. In reviewing Hunner’s book, Ferenc Szasz, author of The Day the Sun Rose Twice, has written, “Hunner brilliantly situates Los Alamos at the center of America’s early atomic culture in this major contribution to our understanding of the Atomic West.”

These programs are made possible by the generous donations of Bob Wilson, Lisa Houston, Namie Erandt, Sandra Griffin, Claude Smith, Jolane Culhane, Patrick Conlin of Prudential Realty, Jim Taylor of Taylor Truck and Auto, Bob Rowland and Bruce Helmig of Isaac’s, Diana Edwards of Clarity Communications, and David Mulvenna of Isokaeder Gallery.

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