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Manhattan Project

Term · Energy · MLC-T-ENE-001253

The U.S. Government project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Started in 1942, the Manhattan Project formally ended in 1946. The Hanford Site, Oak Ridge Reservation, and Los Alamos National Laboratory were created for this effort. The project was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENE-001253
FieldEnergy
ReferencesEIA Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "references": [
    "EIA Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/energy/manhattan-project/"
}

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