Explore a vast array of information through the Museum's archives, PastPerfect. PastPerfect contains a rich collection of searchable information, from photos to archives of the museum's objects. PastPerfect is a way to organize, and preserve in perpetuity the Museum's collection and make it accessible and provide research support, and further an informed and enduring understanding of the Museum's history.

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History received a grant from the National Archives and the NM Historical Advisory Board. The museum digitized old film footage from the 1940s to the early 2000s and made these videos available to the public. The digitized videos cover various topics, from World War II pilot training, Manhattan Project veteran interviews and reunions, Nuclear waste disposal, the Apollo 12 Mission, and declassified atomic weapons testing.

This project was generously supported by the National Archives and the NM Historical Records Advisory Board.

Through our collaboration with the Atomic Heritage Foundation, we have 600 interviews of the men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project. This public archive of oral history collections of Manhattan Project veterans and their family members includes audiovisual interviews with General Leslie R. Groves, General Paul Tibbets, and a transcript of an interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Through our partnership with the Atomic Heritage Foundation that we welcome you to "Ranger in Your Pocket," an in-depth website filled with virtual tours of Manhattan Project sites. Each tour features audio/visual vignettes drawn from interviews with Manhattan Project veterans and their families. Take a self-guided tour of Hanford's B Reactor or Bathtub Row at Los Alamos, hear from the voices of Japan with a collection of interviews, and explore the history of the tens of thousands of African-Americans who left their homes to work on the Manhattan Project around the country, all from the comfort of your home.