Once a Secret Lab, Mound Story Now Being Told Through Museum
The location was the secretive Mound Laboratory, which started to operate in 1948, when tensions with the Soviet Union were mounting.
- The location was the secretive Mound Laboratory, which started to operate in 1948, when tensions with the Soviet Union were mounting.
- After World War II, Mound Laboratory was built to be the primary source to make atomic weapons’ initiators.
- The Mound Science and Energy Museum Association (MSEMA) is a nonprofit organization that was established to collect, preserve, and share the Mound Laboratory’s heritage and workers’ stories with the public.
- The name was changed from the Mound Science and Energy Museum to the Mound Cold War Discovery Center, which opened in April 2018.