Manhattan Project- What do you know about this?

Question

Thanks for the answers. Does anyone have any personal knowledge of this project that can help add to information in the writing of a book about it?

Was this project in Washington State?

Answer 1

Sigh...

Well, if you think the Manhattan Project took place in Washington State... (actually, it did have one site at Hanford, WA).. then you might be better off to just buy one of the many books that have already been written about the Atomic Bomb project.

if you REALLY want to learn about the Manhattan Project, then go to Los Alamos, NM... Stop by the visitor's center at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, then visit the Bradbury Museum and go next door to the bookstore where you can buy any of several hundred different books about the Manhattan Project. But, before you leave town, go up the hill to the little lake and visit the site where the first Atomic Bombs were built.

Then, you can go down to Alamogordo and, if you catch it right, you can go visit the Trinity site on the White Sands Missle Range... it's open for visitors 2 days out of the year.

Then, after you finish that, you can go out to the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas, NM and take the bus tour through the test site.

Answer 2

The Manhattan Project refers to the effort to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.

The project's roots lay in scientists' fears since the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also investigating such weapons of its own. Born out of a small research program which began in 1939, the Manhattan Project would eventually employ over 130,000 people and cost a total of nearly $2 billion USD ($20 billion in 2004 dollars based on CPI), and result in the creation of multiple production and research sites operated in secret.[1]

The three primary research and production sites of the project were the plutonium-production facility at what is now Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at what is now Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the weapons research and design laboratory which is now Los Alamos National Laboratory. Project research took place at over thirty different sites spread across the United States, Canada, and in the United Kingdom. The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947.

Answer 3

"The Manhattan Project refers to the effort to develop the first nuclear weapons. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.

The project's roots lay in scientists' fears since the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also investigating such weapons of its own. Born out of a small research program which began in 1939, the Manhattan Project would eventually employ over 130,000 people and cost a total of nearly $2 billion USD ($20 billion in 2004 dollars based on CPI), and result in the creation of multiple production and research sites operated in secret.[1]

The three primary research and production sites of the project were the plutonium-production facility at what is now Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at what is now Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the weapons research and design laboratory which is now Los Alamos National Laboratory. Project research took place at over thirty different sites spread across the United States, Canada, and in the United Kingdom. The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947."

Answer 4

It was in a town next to Richland, in the tri cities area of Washington called Hanford. I used to live and work there. The following article talks about the history. The last part of the article discusses how the nuclear industry fizzled out..no pun intended....however, what is not mentioned is that Hanford is alive and well. Now Genetics Research is the up and coming research industry there.

Answer 5

Very few of the original participants are alive. Many died form exposure to radioactivity. The Manhattan project was the development of the atomic bomb. Since they didn't realize the danger, many people went to view the explosions. There are many books written about this topic. You might be able to use them as references to find people who are still alive.

Answer 6

It become ethical. If it become no longer pursued the Germans have been purely some months in the back of and in the event that they have been given the atomic bomb first God purely is prevalent with what would have long previous down. as some distance because of the fact the eastern circulate, they refused to offer up and gave us no decision in dropping the atomic bomb. It become that or lose a million protection rigidity adult adult males. At that component interior the conflict the finished international become cynical and immoral, no exceptions. The conflict had to end to regain sanity for all human beings.

Answer 7

It Happened,Pretty Much As Described,.....Scientific Experiment Gone Bad

Answer 8

It' s the program which had the objectives to create a nuclear misle in War Wold II

Answer 9

It was the name given to the program that developed the atomic bombs that were dropped in Japan and helped to end WWII. At Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 10

The US program to create a working nuclear weapon.