Category: Manhattan Project
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Uncovering My Grandfather’s Role in the Manhattan Project, Part 2
The author traces their grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan Project, detailing research efforts through archives and uncovering significant historical contributions and personal sacrifices.
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Uncovering My Grandfather’s Role in the Manhattan Project
The journey that led to my book, ‘The Macdonalds of Cedar Park,’ started when I tried to find out which part of the Manhattan Project my grandfather worked on during World War II. As kids, my cousins, siblings, and I knew our grandfather, Donald L. Macdonald, Sr.—everyone called him Mac—had been involved in the Manhattan…
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Inside the Manhattan Project: Boston as an Innovative Manhattan Project Site
Boston was one of those cities with a Manhattan Project Office from 1942 – 1946 when the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, based in Boston with offices across the country, became the first master contractor for the project.
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Uncovering Family History: My Grandfather’s Engineering Legacy
Finding my grandfather in the records of the Manhattan Project at the National Archives in Atlanta, Georgia, sent me down the road to finding what my grandfather did in the creation of the atomic bomb.
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The A Pin
My plans to research the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and to possibly learn more about what my grandfather did there were upended by the pandemic . . .
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The Interview
The summer I was 10, my father received some mysterious phone calls. Calls that have stuck with me.
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My next writing project
I always knew that I would research my families involvement in the Manhattan Project and the 10th Mountain Division. Little did I know that it would become a large project.
