The United States created its first nuclear program in 1939 after President Roosevelt received the Einstein-Szilard letter, written by Leo Szilard in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, and signed by Albert Einstein indicating that the US might want to start their nuclear program to keep pace with work being done … Continue reading When Boston had a Manhattan Project Office
My grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project and because he died in July 1945, we, his wife, children, and grandchildren never knew what job her performed or what role he had on the project. At the time of this death, everything he did was protected by security. There were clues here and there that what … Continue reading Research, the Manhattan Project, and my grandfather
My plans to research the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and to possibly learn more about what my grandfather did there were upended by the pandemic . . .
On a day trip to Santa Fe, we discovered a Manhattan Project site.
The summer I was 10, my father received some mysterious phone calls. Calls that have stuck with me.
I always knew that I would research my families involvement in the Manhattan Project and the 10th Mountain Division. Little did I know that it would become a large project.
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