Oppenheimer & Shippingport, PA: WWII’s Atomic Era Made Global History in Our Backyard
Headlines carry the widely known fact that people around the globe are flocking to theaters for this summer’s smash film, Oppenheimer. But theatergoers might not know that more than 1,200 local and international dignitaries flocked to Shippingport, Beaver County, nearly 70 years ago for the groundbreaking ceremony for the world’s first commercial atomic power plant. […]