The project was a monumental collaboration between military organization and scientific research.
The "hard-driving" director of the project from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw all construction and security. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
While not a project member, his 1939 letter to President Roosevelt warning of German nuclear potential served as the project’s initial catalyst. 2. Major Research and Production Sites The project was a monumental collaboration between military
Led the team that achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb