Project Sites
Project Sites
This section features information about the three primary sites, Hanford, WA, Los Alamos, NM, and Oak Ridge, TN, along with many of the other sites around the country, from Dayton, OH, where the polonium trigger for the bomb was designed, to Chicago, IL, where the world’s first sustained nuclear reaction took place.
Danish physicist Niels Bohr had observed that building an atomic bomb could never be done without turning the United States into one huge factory. Bohr saw his words borne out as the nationwide project transformed America with facilities coast-to-coast.
Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge are units of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Eventually, other Manhattan Project sites such as the Trinity Site and Wendover Airfield may become associated areas.
A U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex Map

Ames, IA

Britain

California Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

Canada

Chicago, IL

Cuba
Dayton, OH

Decatur, IL

Detroit, MI

France

Grand Junction, CO

Hanford, WA

Idaho Falls

Japan

Los Alamos, NM

Manhattan, NY

Marshall Islands

Morgantown, WV

Nevada Test Site

Newport, IN

Oak Ridge, TN

Philadelphia, PA

Princeton, NJ

Purdue University

Russian Nuclear Complex Map

Sylacauga, AL

Tinian Island

Tonawanda, NY

Trinity Site

University of California, Berkeley

University of Rochester

Washington, DC
