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The term “Manhattan Project” is commonly thought to be a misnomer, but the first offices of the Manhattan Project were at 270 Broadway. General Leslie Groves decided to follow the custom of naming Corps of Engineers districts for the city in which they are located, thus the atomic bomb project became known as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED) or “Manhattan Project.”
https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-06/manhattan-project.php
How did the “Manhattan Project” get its name?
lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-06/manhattan-project.php
Our question of the month.
June 1, 2017
Norris Bradbury (front row on the left and the namesake of the Museum) next to General Groves (and others) at the very end of the Project.
While the Manhattan office itself was closed down, the name stuck to the resulting locations as a whole.
In asking about the name “Manhattan Project,” you are by no means alone. This is one of our most asked questions at the Bradbury. It’s nearly as common as, “Where are the bathrooms,” and “Where should we go for lunch?”
Colonel James Marshall established the Manhattan Project on the 18th floor of an office building at 270 Broadway in Manhattan in June of 1942. The Army Corps of Engineers worked out of it, and New York City was peppered with physics laboratories, including a major one at Columbia University. Much of the United States’ stockpile of uranium ore was in the city in warehouses or on docks, arriving from the Belgian Congo. This Army establishment was called the “Manhattan Engineer District” after its location.