mostly for @wellerstein @GordinMichael @michaelaaronden but others chip in please - is there a business history of the Manhattan Project? I.e., one where the perspective of Dupont, Eastman, Stone & Webster, Standard Oil of NJ, and other commercial entities is primary?
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@GordinMichael put in I don't know of any that are from the perspective of the industrial entities. Jones' Manhattan Army and the Bomb, though from the perspective of the US Army, has a lot about industrial relations and contractors in it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I am working on a piece about the sites of the Manhattan Project (all +300 of them) that will focus pretty heavily on the industrial aspects (b/c they make up a majority of the lesser-known sites that contributed), but it isn't really the same thing.
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looking forward to reading that! so, there's good coverage on Dupont and bits and pieces across the Project literature on involvement of other companies, but no comprehensive business history as such. to me that seems odd, but maybe it's a topic that falls between the cracks
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I think that is right. Most of the history is about the science/scientists, mainly university ones, and the other bits are about the Army's contribution, more or less. The Army was very concerned that industry was being ignored early on; they thought they would resent it.
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The Manhattan District History has a LOT of useful info in it on contractor operations, procedures, lists, etc. It is where I would start on this. I have mined it for my survey of sites, for example.http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/05/general-groves-secret-history/ …
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