New York Times: On 12 December Congress approved the establishment of a new national historic park to preserve sites associated with the World War II secret Manhattan Project, which built the world's first atomic weapons. The park will encompass lands and buildings in New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington, including the home of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the project, and buildings where much of the research and construction of the Trinity device and the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs took place. The effort to preserve the various sites was led by the Atomic Heritage Foundation. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation into law this week.
