The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Manhattan Project
- White Sands Missile Range: Trinity Site Map | Radiation at Ground Zero
- National Atomic Museum: Manhattan Project
- Official Site: The Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Atomic Archive: The Manhattan Project Historical Documents
- The New York Times: Why They Called It the Manhattan Project (October 30, 2007)
- Video: The Moment in Time Full Length Documentary (Time: 56:12)
Manhattan Project Background and Causes
German Nuclear Energy Project
- Wikipedia: German Nuclear Energy Project
- GlobalSecurity.org: German Special Weapons
- Physics World: "A New Light on Hitler's Bomb" (2005)
The Origins of the Manhattan Project
- NuclearFiles.org: Manhattan Project
- White Sands Missile Range: Einstein's Letter to President Franklin Roosevelt
- U.S. Department of Energy: The MAUD Report (1941) | A Tentative Decision to Build the Bomb
- Atomic Heritage Foundation: The Manhattan Engineering District | FDR Gives Final Approval
Science and Technology of the Manhattan Project
- Wikipedia: Nuclear Fission
- Federation of American Scientists: Uranium Production
- Uranium Information Centre: Uranium Enrichment
- PBS: A Science Odyssey, People and Discoveries
Japanese Atomic Program
- Wikipedia: Japanese atomic program
- Physics Daily: Japanese Atomic Program
- The Japan Times: "Japan's A-bomb goal still long way off in '45" (2003)
Manhattan Project Central Figures
Leslie Groves
- Wikipedia: Leslie Groves
- Atomic Archive: Leslie Groves Biography
- Los Alamos National Laboratory: Leslie Groves Staff Biography
Robert Oppenheimer
- Mahalo Guide to Robert Oppenheimer
- Wikipedia: Robert Oppenheimer
- University of California at Berkeley: Oppenheimer Online Centennial Exhibit
- The New York Times: Obituary (1967) | "Oppenheimer Celebration Examines the Myth and the Man"(2004)
Manhattan Project Images and Media
- Google Image Search: Manhattan Project Photos
- White Sands Missile Range: Trinity Site Photos
- Atomic Archive: Trinity Test Photos
- YouTube & Google Video Search: Manhattan Project
- MySpace TV: Cameraman Ben Benjamin on Trinity (Time: 8:50)
Manhattan Project Books and Research
- Amazon.com: Manhattan Project Books
- Powell's Books: Manhattan Project Books and Documentaries
- University of Chicago: Manhattan Project and Atomic Scientists Collections
- JSTOR: "Dividing the Indivisible: The Fissured Story of the Manhattan Project" (1997)
First-Person Accounts
- White Sands Missile Range: Captain Larkin | Ralph Smith
- Atomic Heritage Foundation: Manhattan Project Children Stories/Collections
- NuclearFiles.org: Eye-Witness Accounts of the World's First Nuclear Weapon Test
Manhattan Project Timeline
- 1939: Uranium Committee is formed. Budget is $6,000 for experiments.
- 1940: MAUD Committee is formed.
- 1941: OSRD is formed.
- 1943: August - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers creates the "Manhattan District"
- 1943: September 17 - Colonel Leslie Groves is assigned command of the Manhattan Project
- 1943: December 2 - First ever reactor goes critical under direction of Enrico Fermi in Chicago
- 1945: The first atomic bomb, "Gadget", is detonated at the Trinity site on July 16th
- 1945: "Little Boy" is detonated over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th
- 1945: "Fat Man" is detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th
- 1946: Operation Crossroads conducted in July
- 1947: United States Atomic Energy Commission takes over the Manhattan Project on January 1st
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