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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

The material to make the bombs – Plutonium and Uranium 235 – were made by civilian contractors at Hanford Washington and Oak Ridge Tennessee. Department of Research and Development. Its director, Vannever Bush became in all but name the first presidential science advisor. OSRD was essentially a wartime U.S. Give the U.S.