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 died at his Ohio farm on July 9, 2013.
The contemporary report identifies Gordon Maham as a former Y-12 worker who left the Manhattan Project after learning about Hiroshima. It explicitly states that, after losing his war-industry draft exemption, he served three years in federal prison as a postwar conscientious objector. This confirms time actually served, recorded as thirty-six months; the individual admission and release dates remain unknown. Source: The Nuclear Resister Nos.158/159, September 20, 2010, printed page 9, caption accompanying Gordon Maham’s photograph.
