A former US agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II.
The U.S. Government project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Started in 1942, the Manhattan Project formally ended in 1946. The Hanford Site, Oak Ridge Reservation, and Los Alamos National Laboratory were created for this effort. The project was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The code name for production of the atomic bombs developed during World War II. The name comes from the Manhattan Engineering District, which ran the program.
The secret U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project initiated in June 1942 to develop an atomic bomb before Germany or the USSR.
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. The program was under the leadership of Gen. Leslie Groves, and theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The main laboratory was built on an isolated mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The first atomic bomb was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. See; Fission Bomb, Fusion Bomb, CP-1, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Gun-Type Weapon, Implosion Weapon, Trinity Test.
American project for developing uranium separation plants
secret scientific research effort begun in 1941 to develop an atomic bomb; much of the research was done in a secret community of scientists and workers in TN
code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
A huge industrial operation formed to create an atomic bomb. Started in January 1942 as the Manhattan Engineer District, with 45 researchers, it was renamed the Manhattan Project after the war. By the end of the war, the Manhattan Project had grown into a top-secret organization, with 40,000 employees at 39 plants throughout the country and a budget of $2.2 billion.
Cover name (actually 'Manhattan Engineer District') for the development of the atomic bomb in the USA
In May 1943, the United States began its effort to create an atomic bomb, an undertaking code-named the Manhattan Project, under the management of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. By 1945, nearly $2 billion had been spent on the project.
"Manhattan Project" is a 1985 song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush named for the WWII project that created the first Atomic Bomb. Lyricist Neil Peart read ten books about the Manhattan Project before writing the lyrics so that he had a proper understanding of what the Project was really about.
