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Manhattan District The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Active 1942–1946 Disbanded 15 August 1947 Country United States United Kingdom Canada Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Garrison/HQ Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. Anniversaries 13 August 1942 Engagements Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of France Allied invasion of ...
It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of the project was designated the Manhattan District; "Manhattan" gradually became the codename for the entire project.
Kenneth David Nichols CBE (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000) was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District, at the Oak Ridge Administration Office at the Federal Building, known as "The Castle On The Hill."
The United States Army created the Manhattan District in June 1942, and took over responsibility for the development of nuclear weapons from the S-1 Executive Committee in September 1942. The OSRD's S-1 research and development contracts were terminated as they lapsed, and production contracts were terminated and transferred to the Army.
The 216th Army Air Forces Base Unit (AAF BU) (Special) provided base services at Wendover Army Airfield, where the 509th Composite Group was stationed during World War II. As such, it became involved in the Manhattan Project 's program of testing bombs and aircraft under the codename Project W-47 .
K-25 was the codename given by the Manhattan Project to the program to produce enriched uranium for atomic bombs using the gaseous diffusion method. Originally the codename for the product, over time it came to refer to the project, the production facility located at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , the main gaseous ...
The work of coordinating funding, material, personnel, security, and the primarily civilian research of the OSRD (specifically, the S-1 Executive Committee) was assigned to the United States Army Corps of Engineers's Manhattan District in June 1942, which then directed the all-out bomb development program known as the Manhattan Project. [23]