Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview

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Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
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Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
Robert "Bob" Carter Oral History Interview
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june 13 2016

Robert “Bob” Carter was a Washington College graduate in 1942 from Berlin, Maryland. A day before being drafted into the Army that year, he was deferred to a graduate school physics program at Purdue University. A year and a half later, his professors invited him and his lab partner to come join them at a secret physics project in New Mexico. By 1945, he and his team had invented history’s first atomic bomb in Los Alamos as part of the Manhattan Project.

Digital
1h 8m 50s
Robert "Bob" Carter, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland.
Interview was recorded by Nick Coviello, Lorenz Iversen, and Liz Wiley through Washington College for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project.
Berlin, Worcester, Maryland, United States, NA [38.32262,-75.21769] [id:4348460]Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, United States, NA [39.209,-76.06661] [id:4351264]Purdue University, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, NA [40.42809,-86.92251] [id:4925163]Los Alamos, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States, NA [35.88808,-106.30697] [id:5476825]