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The 106 pages that link to Manhattan Project, each with the reason it gives.

• World War IIRelated: Its weapons were used against Japan in August 1945 and changed the war’s final phase.

• Nuclear fissionNarrower topic: The project transformed fission research into industrial-scale production and weapon development.

• Albert EinsteinRelated: Einstein did not work on the project, despite the later association created by his letter to Roosevelt.

• Columbia UniversityRelated: Columbia scientists contributed research and facilities to the project during World War II.

• Monte Carlo methodRelated: Its difficult neutron-physics calculations created an urgent setting for randomized computation.

• University of ChicagoNarrower topic: Chicago Pile-1 was a key early experiment within this wartime research program.

• Niels BohrRelated: Bohr’s nuclear expertise and advocacy for openness brought him into the project’s wartime history.

• John von NeumannRelated: Von Neumann contributed calculations and design ideas to the project’s weapons research.

• University of California, BerkeleyRelated: Berkeley physicists and laboratories contributed foundational research to the project.

• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiRelated: It produced the bombs used against the two cities.

• Nuclear weaponRelated: It created the first deployable nuclear weapons.

• Radiation protectionRelated: Its scale and aftermath intensified attention to radiation hazards and safeguards.

• Richard FeynmanBroader topic: Feynman worked on theoretical calculations and computing at Los Alamos during the project.

• Nuclear proliferationBroader topic: Its success began the nuclear age and established the first case of weapons technology spreading.

• Nuclear arms raceBroader topic: Its success gave the United States an initial nuclear monopoly after World War II.

• Enrico FermiNarrower topic: Fermi’s reactor work became part of the project’s effort to produce plutonium.

• Werner HeisenbergCompared with: It provides the allied counterpart to the German nuclear project in which Heisenberg participated.

• ActinideRelated: Wartime work accelerated plutonium production and research into heavy actinides.

• Glenn T. SeaborgRelated: Seaborg directed plutonium chemistry at the Chicago branch of this wartime program.

• Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryRelated: Berkeley scientists and facilities contributed to wartime uranium-separation research.

• CyclotronRelated: Cyclotrons at Berkeley contributed to wartime isotope separation research.

• Ernest LawrenceRelated: Lawrence’s Berkeley research and expertise contributed to the project’s uranium-isotope separation efforts.

• Hans BetheRelated: After fleeing Nazi Germany, Bethe led the theoretical division at Los Alamos.

• PlutoniumRelated: The project built the first large-scale reactors and chemical plants to produce plutonium.

• J. Robert OppenheimerNarrower topic: It was the larger program within which Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos work took place.

• Radioactive wasteRelated: Its weapons production generated some of the earliest large-scale radioactive waste streams.

• UraniumRelated: Its uranium enrichment effort produced the material for the Hiroshima bomb.

• Brookhaven National LaboratoryRelated: Brookhaven was established after the war to continue nuclear research and repurpose wartime expertise.

• Lise MeitnerBroader topic: Meitner declined an invitation to join the project, despite the practical importance of fission to its work.

• Nuclear chain reactionRelated: Research into weapon-scale chain reactions became a central project objective.

• Eugene WignerRelated: Wigner contributed to reactor development and plutonium production for the project.

• Heavy waterRelated: Heavy water became strategically relevant through wartime efforts to pursue reactor-based plutonium production.

• Trinity testNarrower topic: Trinity was the project’s first full-scale nuclear detonation.

• Science policyRelated: Its scale and consequences intensified debates over government control and scientific responsibility.

• Vannevar BushRelated: Bush served on the high-level committee overseeing this major research program.

• Edward TellerNarrower topic: Teller joined its Los Alamos laboratory in 1943 and pursued thermonuclear research alongside atomic-bomb work.

• Los Alamos National LaboratoryNarrower topic: Los Alamos was the project’s principal site for designing and assembling the bombs.

• Plutonium-239Related: The project built the reactors and chemical processes needed to produce plutonium-239 at scale.

• Luis AlvarezRelated: Alvarez contributed experimental and engineering work to the project.

• Nuclear reprocessingNarrower topic: Industrial plutonium separation was developed to supply the project’s weapons program.

• Hanford SiteNarrower topic: Hanford was one of the project’s three principal production sites.

• Oak Ridge National LaboratoryNarrower topic: The laboratory began as part of this secret program to produce enriched uranium.

• Stanisław UlamNarrower topic: Ulam’s first Los Alamos work took place within this broader weapons-development effort.

• Edwin McMillanRelated: McMillan's work on plutonium connected his Berkeley research to wartime nuclear programs.

• HiroshimaNarrower topic: It produced the bomb later used against Hiroshima.

• Thermonuclear weaponNarrower topic: Its fission weapons and scientific institutions laid groundwork for postwar thermonuclear research.

• Albert Szent-GyörgyiCompared with: Szent-Györgyi’s antiwar convictions led him to criticize the scientific pursuit of destructive weapons.

• Chicago Pile-1Narrower topic: Chicago Pile-1 was built within the project’s effort to demonstrate a controlled chain reaction.

• Chien-Shiung WuRelated: Wu contributed expertise in radiation detection to the project during World War II.

• Emilio SegrèRelated: Segrè led the Los Alamos group that measured neutron properties relevant to the bomb.