July 16 ~ Honor Atomic Veterans! The Atomic Duty of United States Veterans 1946 to 1980 July 2019 ~~ Still working on a revamp of the Atomic Veterans History Project (AVHP) . Both the web site and archives are being reorganized with a few additions but main purpose will be fixing MANY broken links. The AVHP was created, designed and maintained by Keith R. Whittle for more than a decade. When he was a child, riding with his family from California to Oklahoma returning from a vacation, he saw outside his car
Later when trying to search for details, knowing the year he was there, he was able to figure out which test so he could discover which bomb was detonated. Refining the date was easy: it was July 4, 1957 when the family left California. He remembered how he was upset about missing the cousin's fireworks, so that set in his mind the date that they left. His uncle and his mom wanted to get back home. The timing of the trip was so that they would be driving through the desert at the night so the desert heat wo
April 1996 ~~ Whittle's story was the first personal atomic history web site posted on the Internet in HTML. His story is told: Anno Atomi 11, Growing Up With The Atom . After Whittle posted his story, he became interested in the idea of posting a veteran's story in a web site. About five years before, we had attended a lecture in downtown Portland at a lecture hosted by the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsiblity where a veteran, Bill Bires, told his story to attendees. Keith was interested in the histo