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The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (1994)

Author	US DOE
Date	September 1994
Classification	6.01.0.40/40 (HISTORY / DEVELOPMENT NUCLEAR ENERGY)
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Foreword

The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 brought together for the first 
time in one department most of the Federal Government's energy programs. With 
these programs came a score of organizational entities, each with its own history 
and traditions, from a dozen departments and independent agencies. The History 
Division has prepared a series of monographs on The Origins of the Department 
of Energy. Each explains the history, goals, and achievements of a predecessor 
agency or a major program of the Department of Energy.
"The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb" is a short history of the 
origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during World 
War II. Beginning with the scientific developments of the pre-war years, the 
monograph details the role of United States government in conducting a secret, 
nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with 
an entirely new type of weapon. The monograph concludes with a discussion of 
the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, 
and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The author wishes to thank Richard G. Hewlett, Jack M. Holl, and Thomas Cornwell 
for reviewing the manuscript and making numerous valuable suggestions. He also 
wishes to thank Glenn Seaborg for a thorough critique that improved the final 
product. Others who read and commented on the manuscript include Roger Anders, 
Terry Fehner, Alice Buck, Betsy Scroger, and Sheila Convis. Finally, the author 
thanks La Shonda Steward for research support, Betsy Scroger for a first-class 
editing job, and Sheila Convis for project support.

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