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A Crucible for Innovation

David Kaiser on Manhattan Project Innovations

David Kaiser on Manhattan Project Innovations

A Crucible for Innovation

J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Von Neumann, and the MANIAC computer. Courtesy of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). © Alan Richards.

Thinkers & Tinkerers

Ernest Lawrence tinkering with his cyclotron

Innovation Through Teamwork

Chicago Pile-1 scientists

Enriching Uranium

A billet of uranium

Overcoming the Odds

Inside K-25

Producing Plutonium

A plutonium pellet

Health and Safety Monitoring

Radiation measurement at Hanford

Culinary Arts

A soda jerker making a milkshake in the 1940s

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Manhattan Project site posters