"Manhattan Project Building Preserved"

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Even as a secret community that gave birth to the atomic bomb morphed into a bustling government-lab town, many of its most historic sites remained tucked away from view.

But preservationists have gone behind the security fences to preserve for the first time a structure in which the Manhattan Project scientists did their work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. They contend the building is as significant as George Washington's home or a Civil War battlefield.

This weekend, a series of events will mark the restoration of a wooden, garage-like building where the world's first plutonium bombs were assembled.

Cynthia Kelly is president of Washington, D.C.-based Atomic Heritage Foundation, which is leading a drive to preserve key atomic-age sites at Los Alamos; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and Hanford, Wash.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061006/D8KJ4MP00.html