This conversation with Patricia Heberer-Rice, PhD, focuses on the Nazi T-4 program for the murder of the disabled and the 1945 trial connected to Hadamar, one of the killing centers.

The Museum lost a beloved member of our volunteer family on July 18, 2020 with the passing of Mrs. Jeannine Burk. Jeannine earned over 357 volunteer hours at the Museum beginning in July 2018. Although Jeannine was a relatively new addition to our volunteer corps, she was an integral member and seemed to have always been a part of the Museum family.

Due to inclement weather from Tropical Storm Marco, the Museum will be closed Monday, August 24 through Tuesday, August 25.

Curator Larry Decuers takes us on an exploration of the Museum’s current special exhibition with special guests Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles, co-authors of The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery.

75 years after the dropping of the two atomic bombs, join us for a conversation with Gino Segrè, PhD, and Bettina Hoerlin, PhD, biographers of one of the most critical scientists involved in the Manhattan Project.

Join us for a conversation with Pacific War historian and best selling author John Wukovits, who will be interviewed about his latest book: Dogfight Over Tokyo.

Join Historian Hannah Dailey as she presents on what it means to be an Atomic Veteran.

This presentation of FALLOUT, which premiered on the Museum’s Facebook page, recounts how John Hersey got the story that no other journalist could—and how he subsequently played a role in ensuring that no nuclear attack has happened since, possibly saving millions of lives.

Join us as we reflect on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 75 years later. The Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, Dr. Rob Citino, will host a discussion on the history, artifacts, and Museum’s educational initiatives about the atomic bomb and Hiroshima.

Fox News Anchor and author Chris Wallace discusses his latest book, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World.

This conversation with Emma Kuby, PhD, considers how these survivors became key witnesses after 1945, how they organized, and how they defined survival and witnessing.

Curator Larry Decuers will take a look at the proposed plan to invade Kyushu, code-named Olympic, that was slated to take place on November 1, 1945, and what the Japanese response may have looked like.