ABOUT THIS SITE
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Project Directors: Chief Historian F. G. Gosling and Senior Historian Terrence R. Fehner

Site Designer and Principal Investigator: David Rezelman, Glenn T. Seaborg Fellow in Nuclear History

F.G. Gosling and Terrence R. Fehner conceived the initial outline for this interactive web site on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret World War II atomic bomb program, during summer 2000.  The following year, the Department of Energy's History Division, now the Office of History and Heritage Resources, appointed David Rezelman a Glenn T. Seaborg Fellow in Nuclear History.  Working under the general direction of Drs. Gosling and Fehner, Rezelman, a Ph.D. candidate in recent United States history at Temple University, designed and provided most of the content for the site.  Rezelman took full advantage of existing scholarship on the Manhattan Project in the drafting of the text for this site, including publications of the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies (such as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)). In addition, Rezelman conducted a comprehensive search for photographs and other documentary imagery to incorporate into the site that significantly enhanced the educational value of the final product.  Drs. Gosling and Fehner edited the draft pages, reworking the existing text and adding new materials, including several new pages.  Responsibility for content is entirely theirs.

For a general discussion of the sources used, see "A Note on Sources."  For details on the exact source of the text and photographs for a particular page, see the page's entry in "Sources and Notes."  Some photographs have been "retouched," but in all cases the intention was solely to restore the image to its original form as much as possible. (Click here to see a "before and after" example of retouching.)

The principal mission of the Office of History and Heritage Resources is to produce reliable and useful information on the history of the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies and to disseminate that information to the public and the Department.  See "Nuclear Energy and the Public's Right to Know" for a discussion of how this web site fulfills that mission while conforming to national security considerations. This web site has been reviewed by the Department of Energy's Office of Classification and Information Control and confirmed to be unclassified.

The Office of History and Heritage Resources thanks Jim Solit, Director of the Executive Secretariat, for his leadership in support of this project.

Questions or concerns about this web site should be directed to Jennifer Johnson, Archivist and Web Administrator, Office of History and Heritage Resources, Department of Energy, at jennifer.johnson@hq.doe.gov.  (For tips on viewing this website see How to Navigate this Site).