Down the Street: Photos Expose the Faces of the Hill

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In 1943, there was an urgency to develop nuclear weapons. It was clear that a weapon based on nuclear fission was possible and that Nazi Germany as well as Japan might be making such weapons of their own. So the United States began the Manhattan Project.

The success of this project depended on two things: intelligence and secrecy. That's why one of the locations chosen for research was a small residential boys' school built on a mesa about 40 minutes from Santa Fe -- which would become the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Down the Street: Photos Expose the Faces of the Hill

It was this secrecy surrounding the Hill which intrigued photographer AJ Melnick and helped her create the exhibit "Sixty Years on The Hill: People of Manhattan Project."

Melnick, who is an Eldorado resident, has a background in...

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