Edward P. Marram oral history with William Melton. part 2
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Oral history with Edward P. Marram ('59, MS '61), the founder, president, and CEO of Geo-Centers Inc., which provides services and products for homeland-security preparedness. Marram's career has included being part of the first response to the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979 and training first responders in handling weapons of mass destruction after the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. Marram is entrepreneur-in-residence at Babson College, has taught executive management internationally, and serves on the advisory committee of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UMass Amherst. This interview provides greater depth about Marram’s years at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1968-1979) during the Cold War, a period that included the Vietnam War and the rise of anti-nuclear groups. During this period, Marram worked to design and conduct complex experiments related to the development of nuclear weapons, and the testing of their capabilities and risks both in New Mexico and at underground test sites near Las Vegas, Nev. Marram describes several experiments he designed and some of the people he met including the directors of the National Laboratory, Harold Agnew and Norris Bradbury. Also included is his work in monitoring the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by other nations including China, France, and the USSR. His work also extended to sites in the Pacific Ocean where simulations and other experiments were conducted.
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