WHAT: Reception for launch of Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Eds.: This event is not open to the general public.

WHEN: Sunday, April 27, 2008, from 2 to 4 p.m.

WHERE: University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Richard Tam Alumni Center
(near the intersection of S. Maryland Parkway and E. Harmon Avenue)

DETAILS: The definitive chronicle of 40 years of atmospheric and underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site will soon be available free worldwide via an Internet-based digital library. The project is the first of its kind to provide a fully searchable, balanced view of a broad variety of perspectives on Nevada's role in the Cold War. The digital library will feature more than 335 hours of interviews with more than 150 people and will include searchable transcripts, selected audio and video clips, scanned photographs and images.

INTERVIEW
OPPORUNITIES:
Shelley Berkley, U.S. Representative (D-NV)
David B. Ashley, president, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Patricia Iannuzzi, dean, University Libraries (at UNLV)
Mary Palevsky, director, Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Andrew Kirk, principal investigator
Robert Futrell, principal investigator
Many of the Oral History Project participants