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Manhattan Engineer District
Functional Organizational Table
| Web Master's Note: Many of our visitors make the following statement: "I never realized that the Manhattan Project was so large". As a result, I have developed the below organizational chart to illustrate how the various pieces came together. Roughly speaking, the Project cost in excess of $ 2 Billion and was spread over a little more than three years. |
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| N.R.C.; Washington, DC | --> |
Philadelphia Navy Yard |
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| Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos | |||||||||
| Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley | |||||||||
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Research and Development - Manhattan Engineer District |
SAM Laboratory at Columbia University in New York City | ||||||||
| Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) at the University of Chicago | |||||||||
| Other Associated Laboratories | --> | Iowa State University,
Harvard University, Cornell University, M.I.T., University of Wisconsin,
Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, Purdue University,
Washington University in St. Louis, Princeton University, University of
Minnesota, Cal Tech, and the University of New Mexico
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| Trinity Site - Alamagordo, New Mexico | |||||||||
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Manhattan Engineer District - Headquarters at Oak Ridge, TN |
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Weapon Testing and Delivery - Manhattan Engineer District |
509th Composite Group | --> | 509th HQ, 1st Ordnance Sqdn, 393rd Bomb Sqdn, 320th Troop Carrier Sqdn, 390th Air Service Group, 603rd Air Engineering Sqdn, 1027th Air Material Sqdn, and the 1395th Military Police Company. | ||||
| Project "Alberta" Team on Tinian Island | |||||||||
| Corporate Contractors of the Manhattan Engineer District | --> | Stone & Webster, DuPont, Tennessee Eastman, Union Carbide, Allis-Chalmers, General Electric, Westinghouse, Many others... | |||||||
| Manufacturing Facilities at Los Alamos, NM | |||||||||
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Raw Material Production Operations - Manhattan Engineer District |
Plutonium Production Piles - Reactors | ||||||||
| Hanford Engineer Works at Hanford, Washington (Operated by DuPont) | Plutonium Separation Plants | ||||||||
| Direct Manufacturing Operations of the Manhattan Engineer District | Plutonium Concentration Facilities | ||||||||
| X-10 Graphite Reactor - Semi-Works Operated by DuPont | |||||||||
| Clinton Engineer Works (Oak Ridge, TN) | Y-12 Electro-Magnetic Uranium Separation Plant - Operated by Tennessee Eastman | ||||||||
| K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Separation Plant | |||||||||
| S-50 Thermal Diffusion Uranium Separation Plant | |||||||||
Official Test Count Commenced 01/16/2002
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