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.
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.
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.
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.
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.