Places

Select topics relating to the places where the Manhattan Project occurred have been grouped into the categories listed to the left. A quick overview of places involved in the Manhattan Project can be obtained by reading the summary pages for each of the categories, located in the left navigation bar. Each summary page also has a listing of all the subtopics included within that category.

"Met Lab" (Metallurgical Laboratory) Making of the Met Lab CP-1 (Chicago Pile #1) CP-2 and CP-3 Life at the Met Lab Argonne National Laboratory	Oak Ridge The Choice of Oak Ridge, TN Oak Ridge Site Acquisition X-10 Graphite Reactor Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant Y-12 Silver Program K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant S-50 Thermal Diffusion Plant Oak Ridge Town Site Construction Camps Life at Oak Ridge
Hanford Engineer Works The Selection of Hanford, WA Hanford Site Acquisition Hanford Site Preparation 100 Area: Plutonium Production Reactors 200 Area: "Queen Mary" Chemical Separation Plants 300 Area: Metal Fabrication and Testing Hanford Construction Camp Hanford Workers Richland: Life at Hanford	Los Alamos Laboratory The Selection of Los Alamos, NM Los Alamos Site Acquisition The Making of Los Alamos Main Technical Area DP Plutonium Processing Site Satellite Technical Areas Scientists and Security Los Alamos Town Site Life at Los Alamos Los Alamos After the War
Other Places Columbia University University of California, Berkeley The Dayton Project, 1943-1945 The Dayton Project, 1945 and Beyond Bomb Casing and Drop Test Sites Trinity Test Site Tinian Island City of Hiroshima City of Nagasaki Uranium Mines Uranium Processing Facilities

Sources and notes for this page.

The text for this page is original to the Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources. The base map of the United States is taken from the History Office publication: The Signature Facilities of the Manhattan Project(Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, 2001); the labels are original to the Department of Energy's Office of History and Heritage Resources.