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Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Harrison/Bundy files relating to the development of the atomic bomb [microform], 1942-1946.
Correspondence and miscellaenous documents. The correspondence is from the files of George L. Harrison and Harvey H. Bundy, two special assistants to the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson. These files were maintained by their administrative secretary, Captain R. Gordon Arneson, and are primarily concerned with the assistants' work as liaison between the Secretary of War and Major General Leslie R. Groves. Also known as the Arneson files, the Harrison-Bundy files document the Army's role in the development and production of nuclear weapons. Miscellaneous documents (ca. 1940-1950) consist of memoranda; telegrams; administrative directives; minutes and agenda of meetings; histories of the project's development; draft and published copies of speeches; press releases; legislation and international agreements; petitions; maps and charts; and miscellaneous printed material concerning technical, scientific and fiscal matters in the administration of the project.
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 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 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.
Bundy, Harvey H.
Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970
Harrison, George L.
Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950.
Hanford Engineer Works (Richland, Wash.)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
United States. Army
Atomic bomb
Nuclear energy
Nuclear physics
Nuclear weapons
World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
Maps. aat
Arneson files.
Arneson, R. Gordon.
Clinton Engineer Works (Oak Ridge, Tenn.)
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
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