OREhackerb.xml Guide to the Barton C. Hacker Papers1955-1995 Hacker (Barton C.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Anne Bahde. Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives Research Center 2012
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MSS HackerB Hacker, Barton C., 1935- Barton C. Hacker Papers 1955-1995 2.1 cubic feet 6 boxes The Barton C. Hacker Papers document Hacker’s career as a historian of radiation safety, and primarily consist of materials related to his service as historian to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dosimetry Research Project, beginning in 1979. The collection also contains general research materials, committee documents, and conference proceedings and papers. Materials in English. Biographical Note:

Barton C. Hacker is Curator of Armed Forces History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Beginning in 1979, he served as Historian at Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company (REECo), working on the Dosimetry Research Project for the Department of Energy, which sought to comprehensively identify, locate, and centralize records related to human radiation exposure. He formerly served as Laboratory Historian at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and has held teaching or research positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, the University of Houston, University of Chicago, and Oregon State University (from 1986-1992). He is a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology and of several writing prizes. He has curated major exhibits on Submarines in the Cold War and West Point in the Making of America. His publications include books on the history of Project Gemini, radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, and world military institutions, as well as many articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics in the history of military technology.

The Barton C. Hacker Papers document Hacker’s career as a historian of radiation safety, and primarily consist of materials related to his service as historian to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Dosimetry Research Project, beginning in 1979. These records reflect his efforts to identify and locate records related to human radiation exposure in institutions and organizations around the country, and his later scholarly work on radiation exposure and hazards. The collection includes indexes and chronologies, photocopies of original archival documents and records, correspondence, articles, clippings, publications, conference proceedings, and manuscripts.

The Barton C. Hacker Papers are arranged into four series: I: Department of Energy Dosimetry Research Project Research Files, 1955-1991; II: General Research Files, 1960-1995; III: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Files, 1995; IV: Papers and Conference Materials, 1974-1994. Folders are arranged chronologically within each series.

The collection is open for research.

Barton C. Hacker Papers (MSS HackerB), Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

These materials were donated by Barton C. Hacker in 2006.

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The Barton C. and Sally L. Hacker Nuclear Affairs Collection, The History of Atomic Energy Collection, Nuclear Science Technical Reports Collection, Oregon State University Radiation Safety Department Records.

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. United States. Defense Nuclear Agency. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Nuclear weapons--Research. Nuclear weapons--Social aspects. Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects--United States. Nuclear weapons--United States--Testing--Safety measures--History. Radiation--Safety measures. Science Series I Department of Energy Dosimetry Research Project Files 1955-1995

Series I, Department of Energy Dosimetry Research Project Research Files, contains indexes, document lists, and records surveys of archival documents related to human radiation testing and exposure that Hacker located at various U. S. institutions and organizations, including the Defense Nuclear Agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company. It also contains calendars and chronologies of events in radiation history prepared by Hacker to assist in his task of locating and compiling records related to those events. Though the majority of the series are compilations of or lists of records and archival sources, there are some photocopies of archival documents related to Hacker’s work.

 1.1 Dosimetry Research Project Mission and Task Documents 1978, 1982 1.2 Brief History of Nuclear Weapons Testing Support by REECo and Affiliated Companies undated 1.3 Evaluation of Radioactive Fallout, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project undated 1.4 REECo Historical Radiation Records and Field Documents, 1955-1957 1980 1.5 Columbia University, Lamont Geological Observatory, Project Sunshine Progress Report 1955 1.6 REECo Historical Radiation Records 1955, 1961 1.7 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operations Teapot, Plumbob, Hardtack II 1955-1961 1.8 REECo Historical Radiation Records and Field Documents 1958-1961 1.9 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Radiation Area Personnel Listings 1959-1961 1.10 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Nougat 1961-1962 2.1 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Storax 1962-1963 2.2 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Inblick 1963-1964 2.3 Operation Nougat On-site Radiological Safetly Report 1964 2.4 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Whetstone 1964-1965 2.5 Los Alamos/ AEC Memos Regarding Offsite Radiological Safety in Pacific Test Area 1965-1967 2.6 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Flintlock 1965-1966 2.7 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Latchkey 1966-1967 2.8 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Crosstie 1967-1969 2.9 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Bowline 1968-1969 2.10 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Mandrel 1969-1970 2.11 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operation Emery 1970-1971 2.12 REECo Historical Radiation Records, Operations Grommet and Toggle 1971-1973 2.13 Atomic Energy Commission Reviews to Insure Safety of Nuclear Operations 1972 2.14 Department of Energy Document Duplication Requests 1981 2.15 Defense Nuclear Agency Estimated/Calculated Radiation Doses for Personnel, Multiple Operations 1981-1982 2.16 Defense Nuclear Agency Estimated/Calculated Radiation Doses for Personnel, Multiple Operations 1983-1984 3.1 Defense Nuclear Agency, Nuclear Test Personnel Review 1983 3.2 Defense Nuclear Agency, Nuclear Test Personnel Review Archival Sources 1983 3.3 Defense Nuclear Agency Nuclear Test Personnel Review Archival Sources 1984 3.4 Nevada Test Site Review Documents 1984 3.5 Records Transfer Inventory, US Department of Energy Nevada Office 1984 3.6 Committee on Veteran’s Affairs Operation Crossroads Information Request 1984 3.7 Inventory of Documents for REECo History Project 1985 3.8 Defense Nuclear Agency, Personnel Participation in Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing Document List 1986 4.1 Review copy, “Fireballs at Dawn,” Offsite Radiation Exposure Review Project 1990 4.2 Nuclear Weapons Testing Chronology 1991 4.3 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Survey of Nuclear Testing and Fallout Records 1991 4.4 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Central File Index from 1949-1968 1991 4.5 Pre-Bravo Operation Castle Calendar of Papers and Chronology of Events through 1954 undated 4.6 Calendar of Papers and Chronology of Events Related to Fukuryu Maru Incident through 1955 undated Series II General Research Files 1960-1995

Series II, General Research Files, consists of journal and magazine articles, newspaper clippings, syllabi and full publications related to Hacker’s later scholarly work.

5.1 Journal: Special Issue on Arms Control, Daedulus v. 89 no. 4 Fall 1960 5.2 Journal: Health Physics 25th Anniversary Issue June 1980 5.3 Department of Energy United States Nuclear Weapons Program, A Summary History 1983 5.4 Literature Review for Records of Radiation Cases and Atomic Study Personnel 1983-1984 5.5 Journal: Los Alamos Science n. 7 1983 5.6 Journal: “How One Town in Oregon is Saying No to the Bomb,” Northwest Review v. 22, no. 3 1984 5.7 Syllabi for Arms Control/Nuclear Threat 1986-1987 5.8 Radiation Health Safety/Dosage Health Studies Documentation 1989-1992 6.1 Journal: Los Alamos Science n.21 1993 Series III Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Files 1995

Series III, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Files, consists of reports and committee materials related to two committees that Hacker was an active part of while employed there: the Human Subjects Task Force, and the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Exposure.

6.2 Nuclear Weapons Information Project Archiving Plan Draft 1995 6.3 Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Exposure, Update on Marshall Islands 1995 6.4 Human Subjects Task Force undated Series IV Papers and Conference Materials 1974-1994

Series IV, Papers and Conference Materials, consists of conference proceedings and readings for two conferences, primarily the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Summer Session, as well as several papers delivered by Hacker at various conferences.

 6.5 Nucleonics Week: Reactor Safety 1974-1975 6.6 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Sociological Perspectives 1985 6.7 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Historical Perspectives 1987 6.8 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control Sessions 1-5 1987 6.9 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Summer Session on Global Security and Arms Control Session 6-14 1987 6.10 Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation: Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control Sessions 15-22 1987 6.11 “Bravo and the Marshallese: The 1954 H-Bomb Test and Its Consequences” 1992 6.12 “Coming in from the Cold: Science, Politics, and Nuclear Weapons Testing“ 1993 6.13 “Radioactive Atolls: Cleaning Up After the Bombs, 1958-1978” 1994