Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Correspondence ("Top Secret") of the Manhattan Engineer District [microform], 1942-1946.
A series of formerly security classified "Top Secret" correspondence maintained by Major General Leslie R. Groves when commanding general of the Manhattan Engineer District from September 1942 to December 1946. The documents were placed in the series either because of their special interest to Groves or because of their high security classification. The correspondence, much of which is with high-level U.S. government or military officials, documents the Army's role in the development, production, and deployment of atomic weapons.
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 lincluding Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford Engineer Works at Richland, Washington; and the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico. 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 the 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.
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Atomic bomb
Nuclear physics
Nuclear weapons -- Research.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
United States. Army. -- Weapon systems.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
AIP-ICOS
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