Arnold Anderson was a Six Nations Tuscarora tribal member who worked as a chemical engineer on the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the ...

to help the United States develop the first

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s. He was the president and a founding member of the

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, created in 1977 with six other American Indian scientists.

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