I know that the Manhattan Project was the nuclear bomb, and the Philadelphia Project was supposedly about invisibility (or making things radar proof, but that’s not what i care about right now).
What I do care about is the supposed “third city project”. I had always thought they there were three city projects during WWII. Is my mind playing tricks on me, or was there indeed another city project?
A Department of Energy page lists a 1945 memo that mentions several “city” projects. Take your pick [ul]
[li]Rochester Project[/li][li]Chicago Project[/li][li]Hanford Project[/li]Santa Fe Project[/ul]Most likely they were named after the cities where the work was done.
Hey. Manhattan is not a city. It’s a borough. New York is a city (and a county, and a state).
Okay, I’m done now.
I’d think that the place where the work was actually being done would be the last choice of names-- Too much potential for information leakage. Most of the work on Manhattan, for instance, was done in Los Alamos, NM, with the fissionable material being produced in Oak Ridge, TN.
Oh, and the Philadelphia Project dealt with hiding ships from magnetic anomaly detectors, not radar (or visible light).
Although Hanford (Washington) was where most (all?) of the Plutonium for the Hiroshima (Little Boy) blast was produced. The enriched uranium for Trinity and Nagasaki was produced at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
–sublight.