| Thank you very much for visiting
our web site. Most people arrive at our web site because they
are looking for information about a family member who may have
worked on the Manhattan Project or they are interested in the
history. If you are a returning visitor you will notice that
we have made major revisions to our home page. This is a first
step in a total reorganization of the more than 3,500 web pages of
content. If you are a new visitor, please take a moment to
read the following in order to help you find the information that
you are looking for.
This web site has two major
components - veteran recognition and education:
- Manhattan Project
Veterans - Our primary objective has always been to
properly recognize the contributions of the many thousands of
men and women who worked on the Manhattan Project between 1942
and 1946. We have adopted the Library of Congress'
definition of a veteran to include both military and civilian
personnel. We are the only organization actively building
a database of Manhattan Project veterans. Thus far we have
accumulated the names of close to 17,000 veterans (out of a
total of about 200,000). Of this 17,000, we have
approximately 11,000 listed at various places on this web site.
If you know a veteran or are looking for information about a
veteran, choose the various options listed under the heading
"Manhattan Project Veterans" in the center of the home page.
By holding your mouse pointer over each item you will see a
description of that item. The important thing is to
contact us if you do not find what you are looking for.
(please click here for a more in-depth explanation of the
options)
- Education - Our
educational objective is to provide the most comprehensive
on-line source of primary source documents related to the
Manhattan Project. This area of our web site will undergo
some major revisions over the next 18 months. Eventually
we will target the historical content to 5 groups: Middle School
Students, High School Students, College Students, Life-Long
Learners, and Scholars/Researchers. At the present time
most of our historical content can be found under the heading
"Manhattan Project Digital Library" or MPDL for short.
While the major reorganization and design of the MPDL is
underway, we will continue to post new digitized content under
the sub-headings of "Digitized Content Added 2003 & 2004" and
under "What's New". We also have the historical content
available by major operational unit (ie., Los Alamos, etc.).
For a chronological history of the Manhattan Project, visit
Chronological
History on the home page. For
students, we have developed a glossary of terms and a suggested
listing of "sub-topics" to be used for reports and other written
projects. Sometimes the information that you are looking
for may be hidden or "buried" amongst a group of items.
Our search engine is powerful and will examine all of our 3,500
pages. As a last resort, you may contact us and we will
attempt to answer any question you may have.
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