Event Details
Date(s) & Time(s)::
Daily at 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM from May 1, 2012 until August 31, 2012
Location: Karpeles Manuscript Museum NORTH HALL, 220 North Street, Buffalo, NY 14201
Phone: (716)885-1986
Email: kmuseumbuf@aol.com
Link: http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/
Event Description
Our upcoming exhibit at our North Hall facility will feature documents relating to nuclear developments from the late 19th through mid 20th centuries.
Noted documents:
-Madame Curie’s research notes on Polonium and Radium
-A letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussing the possibility of using Uranium as new and important source of energy, including the production of bombs.
- A memo from President Truman to Great Britain stating that the US and Great Britain will not use the atomic bomb against third parties w/o each other’s consent
-The United States agreement to give Iraq Nuclear capabilities
-A letter from President Lyndon Johnson to a Pennsylvania Congressman discussing the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11AM - 4PM
