Biography
Gordon Maham was an Ohio civil engineer, conscientious objector and nuclear-disarmament activist. He helped build the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge, then left the Manhattan Project after learning how his work had contributed to the bombing of Hiroshima. When he refused military induction, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in the federal penitentiary at Ashland, Kentucky. In prison he taught drafting and worked against racial segregation. He continued opposing nuclear weapons for decades, returning to protests at Y-12 and supporting peace and prison-reform campaigns. He was born on January 3, 1917 and died at his Ohio farm on July 9, 2013.
