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- Bush and Conant convinced President Roosevelt to limit collaboration with Britain, who had initially been leading the race to the bomb. This decision, coupled with increased commitment to the Manhattan Project, ensured that the United States leapfrogged their rivals and created a nuclear monopoly.
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As one of the nation’s foremost scientists, James B. Conant served as the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and played a critical role as the key scientific advisor overseeing the Manhattan Project.
He was a key player in pushing the Manhattan Project forward early on. He discusses the S-1 Committee’s recommendation to President Franklin Roosevelt to pursue all possible methods of enriching uranium.
Bush and Conant convinced President Roosevelt to limit collaboration with Britain, who had initially been leading the race to the bomb. This decision, coupled with increased commitment to the...
- Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents
- Bush-Conant File
- Harrison-Bundy Files
- Top Secret Correspondence
- Preservation Notes
The "Guide to Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents" begins with a useful and detailed table of contents for easy identification of pertinent materials about the early phases of the bomb project, including such information as radioisotope production and distribution and information about the Nuclear Powered Aircraft program. The documen...
The "Bush-Conant file relating to the development of the atomic bomb, 1940–1945" gives readers access to important exchanges between two of the major civilian political leaders involved in creating and overseeing the bomb project — Vannevar Bush and James Bryant Conant. Bush was vice president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Conant...
The third collection, "Harrison-Bundy files relating to the development of the atomic bomb, 1942–1946," contains correspondence between two key advisors to Secretary of War Henry Stimson: George L. Harrison, president of the New York Life Insurance Company, and attorney Harvey H. Bundy. The two helped Stimson establish the Interim Committee to cons...
The file titled "Top Secret Correspondence of the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942–1946" contains diverse materials such as telegrams, memos, letters, and telephone call transcripts between top-ranking officials on the bomb project. It includes materials about the Trinity Test, much about preparing for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and subs...
The collection as a whole is unevenly legible and some entire reels contain documents too light to be read. This stems from problems with the original documents but can be disappointing nevertheless. Also, searching through the files can be as exciting and equally as frustrating as going on a treasure hunt because of inadequate finding guides, tabl...
Manhattan Project Involvement In the years leading up to World War II, Conant played a major role in pushing the U.S. government to develop an atomic bomb. He was appointed by President Roosevelt as an early scientific liaison with the United Kingdom, and also served as a chemistry advisor to the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC).
Major General Leslie Groves oversaw the Manhattan Project for the US government. Private corporations, foremost among them DuPont, helped prepare weapons-grade uranium and other components needed to make the bombs. Nuclear materials were processed in reactors located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington.
James B. Conant was an American educator and scientist, president of Harvard University, and U.S. high commissioner for western Germany following World War II. Conant received A.B. and Ph.D. (1916) degrees from Harvard and, after spending a year in the research division of the chemical warfare.
