The Atomic Testing Museum is situated on the grounds of the Desert Research Institute’s (DRI) Southern Nevada campus and is located in the Frank H. Rogers Science and Technology Building.  The recently constructed Technology Building and the Atomic Testing Museum have evolved out of a partnership between the DRI, the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, and the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation. The Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The facility’s purpose is to enhance the public discussion and dissemination of information about the nation’s nuclear testing program during the Cold War.  Members of the Western History Association will be among the very first to see the Atomic Testing Museum’s permanent exhibits, which will be under construction and are scheduled to open to the public in December.  The museum highlights the larger Cold War context for activities at the Nevada Test Site during the second half of the twentieth century.  The Museum is located at 755 East Flamingo Rd., just a short drive from the Riviera.  Busses will provide service to the Atomic Testing Museum from the Convention Center entrance at The Riviera starting at 5:45 p.m.  The last bus will depart the museum for The Riviera at 8:30 p.m.
Photos courtesy of the Atomic Testing Museum.

7:00 a.m.    American Society for Environmental History Breakfast    Capri 101
7:00 a.m.    Mining History Association Breakfast    Capri 103

LUNCHES:

Noon    Phi Alpha Theta Lunch    Capri 101
John Mack Faragher, Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History, Yale University, Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders and Chair,Program in American Studies at Yale University will deliver the PAT luncheon talk on“The Social Fabric of the American West.” David M. Wrobel, of UNLV, will moderate.

5:00 p.m.    Graduate Student Reception Grande Ballroom H
5:00 p.m. Anne Butler Reception    Capri 101  (Please join us for a reception in honor of former WHQ editor Anne Butler.)

7:00 a.m.    Coalition for Western Women’s History Breakfast (Top of the Riviera Ballroom)
7:00 a.m.    Public History Breakfast (Capri 103)

PRESIDENTIAL LUNCHEON     Noon - Top of the Riviera Ballroom

Presiding: David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University
Presidential Address by Iris H. W. Engstrand
Perceptions and Perfection: Picturing the Spanish and Mexican West

ANNUAL BANQUET    7:00 pm - Top of the Riviera Ballroom

Presiding: Paul A. Hutton, University of New Mexico
Banquet Address by Bill Kurtis, Television Journalist
Photo by Andrew Eccles.

7:00 a.m.    Westerners International Breakfast (Royale Skyboxes 211/212)
7:00 a.m.    Borderlanders/Fronterizos Breakfast (Royale Skybox 208)

Noon    Indian Scholars Lunch (Capri 101)
Noon    Military History Lunch (Capri 103)