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Sister Rosemary Lynch and unidentified protestor holding posters: photographic print

Date

1986 (year approximate)

Description

Protestors at the Nevada Test Site. Sister Rosemary Lynch is pictured at the left, other protestor unidentified. Protestors hold signs saying: "Peace & every good" and " Russia stopped testing. Why don't we?" circa 1986.

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Photograph of people, Pueblo Grande de Nevada, circa mid to late 1920s

Date

1925 to 1929

Description

A group of unidentified men standing around an excavation site in Pueblo Grande de Nevada, also known as the "Lost City," near Overton, Nevada.

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Sister Rosemary Lynch and an unidentified man next to a car in the desert: photographic print

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)

Description

Protestors at the Nevada Test Site circa 1980-1999. Sister Rosemary Lynch pictured from behind. Man to the left of Sister Rosemary Lynch appears to be Rabbi Mel Hechs.

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Sister Rosemary Lynch sitting in the desert: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

Sister Rosemary Lynch protesting at the Nevada Test Site near Camp Desert Rock July 7, 1987.

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Side view of Sister Rosemary Lynch sitting in the desert: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

Sister Rosemary Lynch protesting at the Nevada Test Site near Camp Desert Rock July 7, 1987.

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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the era of Cold War nuclear testing.

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Sister Rosemary Lynch and three unidentified protestors, front right angle: photographic print

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)

Description

Protestors at the Nevada Test Site. Sister Rosemary Lynch is pictured at the far left, three protestors to the right are unidentified. circa 1980-1999. For a similar image from a direct front angle see pho006353.

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Interview with Paul Colbert, July 12, 2004

Date

2004-07-12

Description

Narrator affiliation: Program Director, Nevada Desert Experience

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Interview with Joseph C. Behne, Jr., July 22, 2004

Date

2004-07-22

Description

Narrator affiliation: Test Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Harry Mortenson oral history interviews

Identifier

OH-01341

Abstract

Oral history interviews with Harry Mortenson conducted by Claytee D. White on April 08, 2014, April 22, 2014, and May 06, 2014 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In the first interview, Mortenson discusses his personal background, working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and arriving to Nevada to work as a nuclear physicist at the Nevada Test Site. Mortenson describes his work and recalls anecdotes from his employment. He then talks about his company, Sigma Scientific, and explains the different projects where he worked as a consultant. In the second interview, Mortenson discusses the methods of transportation used to arrive to the Nevada Test Site, his involvement with different organizations, and his tenure in the Nevada State Legislature. In the final interview, Mortenson discusses the device he built to take photographs of the nuclear reactor cores at Las Alamos National Laboratory, and explains how that device worked.

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