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Title:
Foreign Intelligence Supplements Nos. 2 & 3 To Manhattan District History; Book I - General; Volume 14 - Intelligence & Security
Subject Terms:
Manhattan District History
Document Location:
DOE Historian, Office of History and Heritage Resources, Germantown, MD
Document Type:
BOOK
Publication Date:
1952 Jul 31
Declassification Date:
2005 Oct 21
Declassification Status:
Declassified
Document Pages:
37 pages
Accession Number:
MEDBook1Vol14Sup2a3
Originating Research Org.:
Atomic Energy Commission
OpenNet Entry Date:
2014 Apr 15
OpenNet Modified Date:
2014 Apr 11
Description/Abstract:
Supplement 2 presents an account of the action taken, in the United States and in Europe, with respect to the possibility of the use by the Germans of radioactive materials as a weapon, code word "Peppermint". Supplement 3 presents a brief account of the export control activities of the Manhattan District, principally during the period between the announcement of the development of the atomic bomb, in August 1945, and the transfer of these activities to the Atomic Energy Commission 31 December 1946.