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Manhattan Project goes public for the first time....
Manhattan Project goes public for the first time....
Item # 722134
August 16, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 16, 1945
* Manhattan Project is first made public
* Henry DeWolf Smyth report is released
* re. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
* J. Robert Oppenheimer - Otto Hahn - Enrico Fermi
The top of page 8 has a seven column heading: "Story of Scientists' 'Battle' for Atom Bomb Secret Revealed in Smyth Report" with smaller subheads and related photo. See images for portion of the report. This was when the "Smyth Report" was 1st made public, making it a historic report here. Hiroshima and Nagasaki where bombed just over a week earlier.
Complete with 30 pages, rag edition in great condition.
AI notes: The Smyth Report—formally titled Atomic Energy for Military Purposes and released to the public on August 12, 1945—was physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth’s groundbreaking, partially declassified account of the scientific and organizational development of the Manhattan Project, intended to explain to Americans what had produced the atomic bombs used days earlier on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Written at General Leslie Groves’s request, and carefully shaped by wartime security reviewers, the report outlined the discovery of nuclear fission, the principles of chain reactions, the enormous industrial effort required to enrich uranium and produce plutonium, and the coordination of laboratories such as Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford. Though it avoided critical classified details—especially specifics of bomb design—it offered the first authoritative public revelation of the scale, cost, and scientific complexity of the U.S. atomic program. Its sober discussion of the bomb’s power, its ethical implications, and the need for informed public oversight helped frame early postwar debates over nuclear policy and remains one of the most important primary documents of the atomic age.
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