What efforts were made to keep the Manhattan Project a secret???
In the construction of the bomb, did the main scientist and the general have different views?
2007-03-13 08:11:04 · 5 answers · asked by Jane A 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
All kinds... The project was hidden in the middle of nowehere (Los Alamos, New Mexico). Key civilian players traveled there under assumed names; some were given several aliases. Arthur Compton, for example, was to call himself Comstock while traveling West and Comas while traveling East.
2007-03-13 09:10:02 · answer #1 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Workers at nuclear facilities all the way through the cold war were told it was their patriotic duty to keep tight lipped about what they did for a living. Uranium processing plants put signs up with slogans like "loose lips sink ships".
Within the factory, workers were restricted in movement to their own work area. They were only told how to do their specific job. They were totally kept in the dark about what happened in other parts of the plant. Very few people associated with the Manhattan project knew all of the pieces to the puzzle. This was so if any one individual was captured or decided to sell secrets, they could not do too much damage to the project as a whole.
2007-03-13 08:37:24 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well the name first and foremost! All funds were moved around several times, and the bombs itself was built inside a mountain in oakridge Tennessee!
2007-03-13 08:15:39 · answer #3 · answered by SirSmartAzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scientific community certainly differed in their opinions on the use of nuclear energy for military purposes. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Committee_of_Atomic_Scientists
2007-03-13 08:25:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they basically had the same views just if they should test it out
2007-03-13 08:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by Harry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋