The Manhattan Project National Historic Park 1 Introduction

The Manhattan Project National Historic Park

1. Introduction • Established as a national Historic Park on November 10, 2015 • Primarily managed by the Department of Energy and National Park Services

Primary Locations • Oak Ridge, Tennessee • Los Alamos, New Mexico • Hanford, Washington State

The Oak Ridge Site • Administrative and military headquarters for the Manhattan project. • Three parallel processes for uranium enrichment and experimental plutonium production. Which includes • X-10 graphite reactor • Buildings 9731 and 9204 -3 at the Y-12 Complex • K-25 building site

Map of Oak ridge site

K-12 building site Oakridge pictures

X-10 Graphite Reactor Workers in the Graphite Reactor use a rod to push fresh uranium slugs into the reactor's concrete loading face

The Los Alamos Site • Design and build atomic Bomb • There are three different areas at the Los Alamos Site • Gun Site • V-Site Facilities • Pajarito Site

Map of Los Alamos Site

Aerial Image of the Gun Site

Los Alamos Site Picture Los Alamos: The city was built for the purpose of the nuclear bomb. If the proposal is signed into law, the parks would be limited to areas involved in the Manhattan Project that created the first nuclear weapons Read more: http: //www. dailymail. co. uk/news/article 2516221/Top-secret-Los-Alamos-nuclear-bomb-sites-opened -public-new-national-park-commemorating-Manhattan. Project. html#ixzz 4 y. Kxz. OOb. K Follow us: @Mail. Online on Twitter | Daily. Mail on Facebook

Los Alamos

Little boy bomb and explosion

The Hanford, WA Site • B-Reactor National Historic landmark • Hanford High School and Hanford Construction Camp Historic District • Bruggermann’s agriculture Warehouse Complex • White Bluffs Bank and Hanford Irrigation District Pump House

Map of the area at Hanford site

The B-Reactor

2. The Historical context of the site • What is the Manhattan Project • Was started in 1942 fear that Nazi Germany would build and use nuclear weapons during world war II

3. Historical Importance • The Manhattan Project’s importance with WWII • The Manhattan Project’s Importance with Future Technology

4. Economically important • People employed • Cost

5. Why you should care about this park • Helped end WWII • It is part of this countries history • It employed many people. • Brought the world into the nuclear area.

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