osti | General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in
late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan Project
called the Manhattan District History. Prepared by multiple
authors under the general editorship of Gavin Hadden, a longtime civil
employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, the classified history was
"intended to describe, in simple terms, easily understood by the average
reader, just what the Manhattan District did, and how, when, and
where."
The volumes record the Manhattan Project's activities and
achievements in research, design, construction, operation, and
administration, assembling a vast amount of information in a systematic,
readily available form. The Manhattan District History
contains extensive annotations, statistical tables, charts, engineering
drawings, maps, photographs, and detailed indices. Only a handful of
copies of the history were prepared. The Department of Energy's Office
of History and Heritage Resources is custodian of one of these copies.
The history is arranged in thirty-six volumes grouped in eight books.
Some of the volumes were further divided into stand-alone chapters.
Several of the volumes and stand-alone chapters were never security
classified. Many of the volumes and chapters were declassified at
various times and were available to the public on microfilm. Parts of
approximately a third of the volumes remain classified.
The Office of Classification and the Office of History and Heritage
Resources, in collaboration with the Department's Office of Science and
Technical Information, have made the full-text of the entire thirty-six
volume Manhattan District History available on this OpenNet website.
Unclassified and declassified volumes have been scanned and posted.
Classified volumes were declassified in full or with redactions, i.e.,
still classified terms, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs were removed
and the remaining unclassified parts made available to the public. All
volumes have been posted.
Following is a listing of the books, volumes, and stand-alone chapters of the Manhattan District History with links to pdf copies.
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