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Manhattan Project Children Stories/Collections

The original mission of the Manhattan Project Preservation Association was to capture the stores and recollections of children who grew up in Manhattan Project locations. Over the years, the MPHPA gradually moved toward Manhattan Project veteran recognition and education as its primary initiatives. The following are some of the childhood stories the MPHPA received in its early years. The Atomic Heritage Foundation encourages others to submit similar stories. If you'd like to contribute, please send your story (in MS Word format) to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

STORIES FROM MANHATTAN PROJECT CHILDHOODS:

Jay Searcy, "My Nuclear Childhood"

Helen Koch, "Memories of a Proud Badge-Holder: A Child's Life in Oak Ridge"

Peggy Dickson, "Memories of Oak Ridge, Tennessee During World War II"

Peggy Dickson, Collection of Items Related to Growing Up in Oak Ridge

Peggy Dickson, Jefferson Junior High School Yearbook (1946)

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It was very exciting times. And of course when the bomb was dropped in August ‘45, the town went wild. It was absolutely crazy. As was generally reported in the papers, very few of the people here knew that we were working on a bomb, and just about no one knew what the status was, as relatively young engineers... it was not possible for us to know how much material was needed for a weapon or anything else. We weren’t sophisticated physicists like Oppenheimer and the rest of them out in Los Alamos.

BOB KUPP, OAK RIDGE

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"We (the military leaders at Los Alamos) came up through kindergarten with them (the scientists). While they could put elaborate equations on the board, which we might not be able to follow in their entirety, when it came to what was so and what was probably so, we knew just about as much as they did. So when I say that we were responsible for the scientific decisions, I am not saying that we were extremely able nuclear physicists, because actually we were not. We were what might be termed "thoroughly" practical nuclear physicists." (General Leslie R. Groves, Commanding Officer, Manhattan Engineer District, 1955)