A public dedication of V Site is scheduled at 5 this afternoon in the Rose Garden behind Fuller Lodge in downtown Los Alamos. Local, state and national leaders, Laboratory leaders and others will commemorate the restoration of the site where the Trinity device was assembled in the Laboratory’s Manhattan Project years.
The dedication is part of a series of events taking place this weekend in Los Alamos that highlight the innovations of the Manhattan Project and its legacy of creativity in science and the arts.
“Legacy of the Manhattan Project: Creativity in Science and the Arts” includes talks, a book signing, a reunion of Manhattan Project veterans, and tours of the home where the Laboratory’s first director, J. Robert Oppenheimer lived.
The program culminates with a keynote symposium Saturday evening in Fuller Lodge. Scheduled to participate are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes; Laboratory Senior Fellow Emeritus George Cowan; Tom Hunter, president of Sandia National Laboratories; Los Alamos- book author Joseph Kanon; and Jon Else, award-winning producer of "The Day After Trinity"; and John Adams, composer of the recent opera Dr. Atomic.
Los Alamos Historical Society, the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Los Alamos County, Los Alamos National Bank, the Save America’s Treasures program, the New Mexico Department of Tourism and the Laboratory are sponsors of the activities.
For more information, go to http://www.losalamoshistory.org/ online or http://www.atomicheritage.org/indexsub online.
An internal dedication ceremony recognizing Laboratory staff members and others involved in the V-Site restoration project also is today at Technical Area 16.
