Tag: Manhattan Project

• 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.

  A. E. Macdonald

  April 8, 2024

  book, Manhattan Project, New England, WWII

  atomic bomb, Boston, groves, Manhattan Project, nuclear, Oak Ridge, oppenheimer

• An unexpected discovery

  On a day trip to Santa Fe, we discovered a Manhattan Project site.

  A. E. Macdonald

  March 19, 2019

  Manhattan Project, travel, writing

  109 East Palace, Albuquerque, atomic bomb, book, Knoxville, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, New Mexico, New Mexico History Museum, Oak Ridge, Santa Fe, travel, writing

• The Interview

  The summer I was 10, my father received some mysterious phone calls. Calls that have stuck with me.

  A. E. Macdonald

  March 11, 2019

  childhood memories, Manhattan Project, writing

  Manhattan Project

• 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.

  A. E. Macdonald

  February 4, 2019

  Manhattan Project, writing

  10th Mountain Division, atomic bomb, calutron cubicles, Manhattan Project, Stone and Webster, uranium