About
A historical research network for the nuclear weapons complex.
THE ROSETTA WEB™ reconstructs relationships that disappear when facilities, contractors, materials, and records are studied in isolation.
Mission
THE ROSETTA WEB™ reconstructs the historical infrastructure of the United States nuclear weapons complex through systematic analysis of government records, archival collections, technical reports, contracts, shipment records, occupational records, and other primary evidence.
The project seeks to identify and document relationships among government facilities, private contractors, universities, laboratories, materials, components, operations, worker populations, and surviving archival collections.
THE ROSETTA WEB™ is intended to make dispersed historical evidence easier to discover, understand, and evaluate by researchers, workers and their families, historians, and the public. By reconnecting records that have become separated by agency, facility, contractor, repository, and time, the project seeks to preserve a more complete documentary history of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
Research focus
What connects the system?
- Facilities and buildings
- Government authorities and contracts
- Private organizations and universities
- Materials, isotopes, components, and shipments
- Workers, operations, incidents, and exposure pathways
- Documents, archives, and missing records
Occupational history
Particular attention is given to reconstructing occupational history: who performed the work, where and when that work occurred, the materials and processes involved, and the monitoring conditions under which it was performed. This evidence can improve the historical reconstruction of occupational radiation exposure and help evaluate whether retrospective dose reconstruction is adequately supported by the surviving record.