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By Friends of History - New Mexico History Museum

Reviews

10 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$72 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
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Overview

    • Discover the history of the Manhattan Project and Cold War in Santa Fe
    • Visit the back-room office for the Manhattan Project during World War II
    • Stand near the bridge where Klaus Fuchs met Harry Gold in 1945
    • Walk part of the route used by Edward Lee Howard during his escape to Moscow
    • Learn about spycraft techniques used to coordinate meetings and transfer info

Activity location

    • Santa Fe
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA | Meet at front entrance of New Mexico History Museum
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

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Santa Fe: Assassins, Spies and the Manhattan Project Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:45 AM
Price details
NZ$72.16 x 2 AdultsNZ$144.32
Total
Price is NZ$144.32
Until Fri, 13 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Guided walking tour
  • Inclusions
    Historical anecdotes
  • Inclusions
    Vintage images
  • Inclusions
    Audio device to hear your docent

Know before you book

    • Not allowed: Pets (assistance dogs allowed)
    • Not suitable for: People with altitude sickness, People with mobility impairments

What you can expect

  • Step into Santa Fe's past and explore its extraordinary connection to the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Begin your journey at the back-room office where gate passes were issued and transport was arranged to take arriving scientists and their families “up the hill” to Los Alamos.

    Stand near the bridge where German physicist Klaus Fuchs met American chemist Harry Gold in 1945 to deliver atomic secrets taken from Los Alamos. Walk part of the very route used by Edward Lee Howard, a fired CIA operative turned Soviet informer, during his escape to Moscow in 1985.

    Along the way, learn about spycraft techniques used to coordinate meetings, confirm identities, and transfer information between spies and their couriers during the Manhattan Project and Cold War. Hear true stories and genuine facts associated with Santa Fe's extraordinary connection with important historical events.

    Several anecdotes and vintage images will bring out the human side of a critical and dangerous period in American history.

Location

Activity location

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    • Santa Fe
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • 113 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA | Meet at front entrance of New Mexico History Museum
    • Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States