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unusual facts about The Manhattan Project



Nuclear Emergency Support Team

NEST is mentioned in the motion pictures Broken Arrow, The Peacemaker, The Manhattan Project, Atomic Train and Vishwaroopam, as well as in the made-for-television film Special Bulletin and the television series 24.

Oh, Manhattan

The name "Oh, Manhattan" was derived from a song written by original vocalist Donny Thomas about The Manhattan Project .

Terminal Entry

The Manhattan Project, and WarGames, two other movies from the 1980s which covered similar topics dealing with the dangers of technology.


see also

Alpha Theta

Owen Chamberlain - class of 1941, one of Dartmouth's only three Nobel Prize winners (Physics 1959), participated in the Manhattan Project.

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists", the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project by Robert Jungk

G. A. R. Memorial Junior/Senior High School

David Bohm - Quantum physicist who was involved in the Manhattan Project.

George Pegram

G. B. Pegram (George Braxton Pegram, 1876–1958), physicist involved in the Manhattan Project

George Watt

George W. Watt (1911–1980), American chemist, participated in the Manhattan Project

Holy Sonnets

The history of the Trinity test, and the stress and anxiety of the Manhattan Project's workers in the preparations for the test was the focus of the 2005 opera Doctor Atomic by contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.

Jacob Beser

There he met or worked with various illuminaries in the Manhattan Project, such as Robert B. Brode, Norman Ramsey, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Doll, and General Leslie Groves.

JRO

J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American physicist, known for his work with the Manhattan Project

Nicholas Baker

Niels Bohr, who assumed the name Nicholas Baker while working on the Manhattan Project

Oppy

a nickname for J. Robert Oppenheimer (most often spelled "Oppie"), the Manhattan Project leader

Phil Morrison

Philip Morrison (1915–2005), American physicist involved with the Manhattan Project, who later became a faculty member at MIT

Students for a Libertarian Society

As part of this effort, it worked closely with scientist John Gofman, a veteran of the Manhattan Project and a key developer of an early process for separating plutonium from fission products, in a campaign to repeal such subsides for nuclear power as the Price Anderson Act.

Tower 270

The initial proposed name for the development of the atomic bomb was "Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials." Fearing the name would draw undue attention General Leslie Groves changed it to the "Manhattan Engineer District" which was eventually shortened to the Manhattan Project.

Ulam

Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984), Polish-born American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project

Vasilevsky

Lev Vasilevsky (also known as Leonid A. Tarasov), KGB Resident in Mexico City during the Manhattan Project