“The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb” is a short history of the origins and develop¬ment of the American atomic bomb program during World War H. Beginning with the scientific develop¬ments of the pre-war years, the monograph details the role of United States government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new
type of weapon,The monograph concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission.