Manhattan Project Historical Park legislation introduced in Senate--House to follow next week
Published: Fri, 06/15/12
Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill To Commemorate Manhattan Project Through New National Historical Park Site in New Mexico, Washington and Tennessee
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources June 14, 2012 Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) today introduced legislation that would designate Manhattan Project sites around the country as a National Historic Park. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Tom Udall (D-NM) and Patty Murray (D-WA) are cosponsors of S. 3300. In the House of Representatives, Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) said today that he will introduce a similar bill when the House returns to session next week.
As an expert panel of historians reported in 2001, the top-secret program to create an atomic bomb during World War II centered in Los Alamos, NM, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. That effort has been called "the single most significant event of the 20th century."
"Providing visitors with opportunities to form their own intellectual and emotional connections with the significance of sites to be included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park helps them understand its relevance to our shared national heritage," Bingaman explained. "There is no better place to understand history than where it happened, and that's what national parks and the National Park Service do best."
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