The secret history of the atomic bomb.

[OpanaPointer]

From a friend in the 202 area code:

FYI:

Subject: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb Is Now Available in Full Online. It even has a US Navy section.
URL: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan_district.jsp

"General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late
1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project called the Manhattan District History. Prepared by multiple authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was "intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and where." The volumes record the Manhattan Project's activities and achievements in research, design, construction, operation, and administration, assembling a vast amount of information in a systematic, readily available form. The Manhattan District History contains extensive annotations, statistical tables, charts, engineering drawings, maps, photographs, and detailed indices. Only a handful of copies of the history were prepared. The Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources is custodian of one of these copies.

The history is arranged in thirty-six volumes grouped in eight books. Some of the volumes were further divided into stand-alone chapters. Several of the volumes and stand-alone chapters were never security classified. Many of the volumes and chapters were declassified at various times and were available to the public on microfilm. Parts of approximately a third of the volumes remain classified.

The Office of Classification and the Office of History and Heritage Resources, in collaboration with the Department's Office of Science and Technical Information, have made the full-text of the entire thirty-six volume Manhattan District History available on this OpenNet website.
Unclassified and declassified volumes have been scanned and posted.
Classified volumes were declassified in full or with redactions, i.e., still classified terms, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs were removed and the remaining unclassified parts made available to the public. All volumes have been posted."

[Carl Schwamberger]

I wonder how many previous histories of the Abomb will still be worth anything after this publication?

[OpanaPointer]

I wonder how many previous histories of the Abomb will still be worth anything after this publication?

I'm sure there are a thousand different ones in that mass of documents. :roll:

[ChristopherPerrien]

The history is arranged in thirty-six volumes grouped in eight books.

Well, I guess if the A-bomb had not worked , we could have dropped this collection on Japan.

Such "massive" redundancy is very common in the atomic weapons field and gov. paperwork.