NYT: Manhattan Project really did start in Manhattan

[JackRiddler]

Source: NYT

Fascinating interactive map of Manhattan Project sites in Manhattan in Today's NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/10/30/science/20071030_MANHATTAN_GRAPHIC.html

Full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/science/30manh.html?pagewanted=print

In “The Manhattan Project” (Black Dog & Leventhal), published last month, Dr. Norris writes about the Manhattan Project’s Manhattan locations. He says the borough had at least 10 sites, all but one still standing. They include warehouses that held uranium, laboratories that split the atom, and the project’s first headquarters — a skyscraper hidden in plain sight right across from City Hall.

“It was supersecret,” Dr. Norris said in an interview. “At least 5,000 people were coming and going to work, knowing only enough to get the job done.”

Manhattan was central, according to Dr. Norris, because it had everything: lots of military units, piers for the import of precious ores, top physicists who had fled Europe and ranks of workers eager to aid the war effort. It even had spies who managed to steal some of the project’s top secrets.

Still, more than six decades after the project’s start, the Manhattan side of the atom bomb story seems to be a well-preserved secret. Dr. Norris recently visited Manhattan at the request of The New York Times for a daylong tour of the Manhattan Project’s roots. Only one site he visited displayed a public sign noting its role in the epochal events. And most people who encountered his entourage, which included a photographer and videographer, knew little or nothing of the atomic labors in Manhattan.

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[Turbineguy]

1. That headline made me wonder:

What about all those Professors at the Electoral College? Do they get benefits?

[Javaman]

2. I'm sure ghouliani will link himself to that fact, 9/11 and how tough he is on

terrorists.

wait for it.