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Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Assoc., Inc.

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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  Eventually we will target the historical content to 5 groups: Middle School Students, High School Students, College Students, Life-Long Learners, and Scholars/Researchers.  At the present time most of our historical content can be found under the heading "Manhattan Project Digital Library" or MPDL for short.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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