The Manhattan Project

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Museums and organizations around the country feature collections of World War II and Manhattan Project veterans and their families. If your organization would like us to link to your collection, please contact us

The Oak Ridge Public Library has a collection of oral histories of Oak Ridge, Manhattan Project-era residents. To view the collection on their website, go to Departments & Services - COROH - View Oral Histories.

The Hanford History Partnership is a collaborative effort of Washington State University Tri-Cities and regional organizations that currently house Hanford oral histories. 

Stanley Goldberg, consulting historian for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), recorded eighteen video sessions with fifty-five participants involved in the engineering, physics, and culmination of the Manhattan Project. 

The Niels Bohr Library and Archives of the American Institute of Physics holds more than a thousand tape-recorded interviews. 

Oral histories of employees at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.

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