About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 124. Chapters: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fat Man, Little Boy, Enola Gay, Hanford Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Trinity, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 509th Composite Group, RaLa Experiment, Ames Laboratory, Calutron, Bockscar, Timeline of the Manhattan Project, Silverplate, Ed Westcott, Interim Committee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Fat Man and Little Boy, MAUD Committee, M. S. Factory, Valley, Thin Man, S-1 Uranium Committee, B Reactor, Chicago Pile-1, Clinton Engineer Works, Y-12 National Security Complex, Jesse Beams, X-10 Graphite Reactor, Shinkolobwe, Project Alberta, Smyth Report, United Church, The Chapel on the Hill, McDonald Ranch House, Operation Epsilon, Pumpkin bomb, Operation Alsos, Trinitite, Metallurgical Laboratory, Quebec Agreement, Tower 270, Szilard petition, The Day After Trinity, Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, Montreal Laboratory, Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, Einstein-Szilard letter, Dayton Project, Environmental Measurements Laboratory, Los Alamos Ranch School, S-50, Franck Report, Los Alamos Primer, Sahtu, Uravan, Colorado, Office of Scientific Research and Development, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Deadline, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, North Atlantic Division, Red Gate Woods, Oppenheimer, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, Race for the Bomb, Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Special Engineering Detachment. Excerpt: The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District...