Locations
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A little-known operation of the Manhattan Engineering District took place behind enemy lines in occupied Europe. Code-named the "Alsos" Mission,... |
Several sites in Iowa played an important role during and after the Manhattan Project, including the Ames Laboratory at the Iowa State University... |
The B Reactor at Hanford was built and operated by DuPont and was the world's first production-scale nuclear reactor. B Reactor was the first of... |
Often overlooked, British physicists were the first to realize the feasibility of an atomic bomb and their urgings were vital to the development and... |
Before the war, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was a leading university in the fields of particle and nuclear physics. It was... |
Harvard University Harvard became an important center for nuclear physics research during the early twentieth century. After Ernest O. Lawrence... |
Often overlooked, Canada played an important role in the Manhattan Project, especially during the early stages of research and development. Canada... |
One of the most important branches of the Manhattan Project was the Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) in Chicago. Using the name "Metallurgical... |
Important Manhattan Project research was conducted at Columbia University’s Pupin Hall (right) and Schermerhorn Hall. World-class physicists,... |
After the activation of the 509th Composite Group in December 1944, some members of the group (including members of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron,... |
Dayton, Ohio was another site of the secret Manhattan Project work. In July 1943, Oppenheimer assigned Charles A. Thomas the task of separating... |
The Houdaille-Hershey Plant was a secret Manhattan Project site located in Decatur, Illinois that was responsible for plating the interior of pipes... |
An Introduction to French Nuclear History France was the premier place for research into radioactivity decades before the development of the bomb.... |
This site "manufactured ceramic insulators in the 1940s and processed uranium fuel in the 1960s. |
From 1943 until 1945, Grand Junction, Colorado was the center of the Manhattan Project’s secret effort to mine and refine uranium ore from... |
The Gun Site (TA-8-1) was where Manhattan Project scientists and engineers developed and tested the gun-type weapon design. The design for the “... |
Hanford, Washington, on the beautiful Columbia River, was the site selected for the full-scale plutonium production plant, the B Reactor. Today a... |
Jackson Square was the heart of Oak Ridge’s business district. Originally Town Center No. 1, the name Jackson Square was adopted in February 1945 as... |
Japan was one of the Axis powers in World War II. Its attack on Pearl Harbor, HI, on December 7, 1941 brought the US formally into the war. Japan... |
Jersey City was home to the headquarters of the M. W. Kellogg Company, which specialized in chemical engineering projects. In 1942, the S-1 Committee... |
The K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge used the gaseous diffusion process to enrich uranium. Gaseous Diffusion Process The K-25 plant was an enormously... |
In 1918, entrepreneur Ashley Pond began an "outdoor school" at Los Alamos to provide boys a chance to gain health, strength and self-confidence. The... |
Los Alamos, New Mexico, was the site of Project Y, or the top-secret atomic weapons laboratory directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. The site was so... |
A surprising number of New York City offices, laboratories, and warehouses were involved in the top-secret project. While these New York City sites... |
Located at 3280 Broadway, the Nash Garage Building was originally an automobile dealership which was purchased by Columbia University and converted... |
In 1942, General Leslie Groves approved Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as the site for the pilot plutonium plant and the uranium enrichment plant. Manhattan... |
Philip Abelson conducted research on the liquid thermal diffusion method of isotope separation at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. This process was... |
Princeton University was a hotbed for nuclear physics research during the early twentieth century. Much of the research conducted at Princeton... |
The Purdue University Physics Department operated a cyclotron during the early part of the war, conducting important nuclear research. Many of the... |
With both the K-25 and Y-12 plants suffering setbacks in the spring of 1944, Oppenheimer urged Groves to approve the construction of a thermal... |
Santa Fe was the first stop for many scientists, engineers, Women's Army Corps, military police and all others assigned to work on the top-secret... |
Though not a Manhattan Project location, the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands played an important role in the life of J. Robert... |
In early 1944, DuPont, the operating contractor at Hanford, foresaw the need for four chemical separation facilities. These facilities, designated... |
Tinian Island was the launching point for the atomic bomb attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. One of three islands in the Northern... |
The birth of nuclear weapons occurred on July 16, 1945 at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico, 230 miles south of Los Alamos.... |
The "Rad Lab" was the short name for the Radiological Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Its director was Nobel laureate Ernest O... |
Small experiments studying the effects of radioactive isotopes, including plutonium, uranium, and polonium, on humans were conducted in the Manhattan... |
Located in a bucolic setting surrounded by tall pines, these humble wooden and asbestos-shingled buildings were where the world's first atomic device... |
In a tiny, two-room office located on the fifth floor of the New War Building, General Leslie R. Groves and a handful of staff members oversaw the... |
Wendover Air Field was chosen as the rear training base for the 509th Composite Group because of its isolation. It is located in the salt flats... |
Wilmington, Delaware is the headquarters of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, an American chemical production company that played a significant... |
The X-10 Graphite Reactor was the first reactor built after the successful experimental “Chicago Pile I” at the University of Chicago. On December 2... |
The Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge used the electromagnetic separation method, developed by Ernest Lawrence at University of California-Berkeley, to... |