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-https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/manhattan-ny
-The first offices of the Manhattan Project were at 270 Broadway.
+A surprising number of New York City offices, laboratories, and warehouses were involved in the top-secret Manhattan Project. While these New York City sites remain largely unmarked and unknown, they were a small but crucial part of the success of the project, and deserve to remembered.
-General Leslie Groves decided to follow the custom of naming Corps of Engineers districts for the city in which they are located, thus the atomic bomb project became known as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or “Manhattan Project.” The title had the additional benefit of masking the actual purpose of the top-secret project.
+The term “Manhattan Project” is commonly thought to be a misnomer, but the first offices of the Manhattan Project were at 270 Broadway.
+Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/manhattan-ny
+I just came back from a road trip where one of my stops was a bus tour of the Oak Ridge site - Manhattan Project National Historical Park.  The Manhattan Project is a fascinating mix of science and history, very cool!
+https://www.nps.gov/mapr/oakridge.htm
+I was amazed how many wrong answers were given to this question on Quora.
+https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/manhattan-ny project.
+Oak Ridge, Tennessee[edit]
+The American Museum of Science and Energy provides bus tours of several buildings in the Clinton Engineer Works including the:
+X-10 Graphite Reactor  Buildings 9731 and 9204-3 at the Y-12 complex
+East Tennessee Technology Park, located on the site of the K-25 Building
+On Oppenheimer's recommendation, the search was narrowed to the vicinity of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Oppenheimer owned a ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Range.[43] The climate was mild, there were air and rail connections to Albuquerque, it was sufficiently distant from the West Coast of the United States for a Japanese attack not to be an issue, and the population density was low.[42]
+Oak Ridge, Tennessee[edit]  The American Museum of Science and Energy provides bus tours of several buildings in the Clinton Engineer Works including the:
+X-10 Graphite Reactor
+Buildings 9731 and 9204-3 at the Y-12 complex
+East Tennessee Technology Park, located on the site of the K-25 Building
+References[edit]
+Jump up ^

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