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Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Manhattan Project papers, 1942-1959.
Includes general correspondence, defense contracts, budget reports, insurance policies and military documents covering the period 1942-1959. Deals with the construction of Argonne and the military training program at the University of Chicago.
The Manhattan Engineer District was officially designated as such by the U. S. War Department on August 13, 1942. Also known as the Manhattan Project and initially headquartered in New York, it functioned as a special district for directing the atomic bomb project. It supervised research, development, and testing of projects, plant construction, and production programs relating to the project and administered numerous laboratories and field installations including Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, IN; Hanford Engineer Works at Richland, WA; and the laboratory at Los Alamos, NM. On December 31, 1946 the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project was established to assume the military functions of the Manhattan Engineer District and on January 1, 1947 all phases of nuclear energy research and production came under control of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The Manhattan Engineer District continued for about six months longer solely as an administrative agency to close out the project.
Argonne National Laboratory -- Design and construction.
University of Chicago -- Research.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Finance.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic bomb -- Research -- United States.
Military education -- United States -- 20th century.
Military policy -- United States -- 20th century.
Military readiness -- United States -- 20th century.
Military research -- United States -- 20th century -- Documentation.
Military weapons -- Planning -- United States.
Military missions.
Nuclear facilities -- Design and construction -- United States -- Illinois.
Physicists -- Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- United States.
Budgets. aat
Insurance policies. aat
Military records. aat
Research and development contracts. lcsh
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Documentation.
United States. War Dept.
AIP-ICOS
University of Chicago. The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections. 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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