Manhattan Project sites

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World War II site category cultural heritage ensemble group of historic sites

Manhattan Project sites are historically significant locations across the United States associated with the research, development, and testing of the first nuclear weapons during World War II.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II site category → cultural heritage ensemble → group of historic sites →
country	United States of America →
hasDesignation	Manhattan Project National Historical Park core sites →
hasPart	Albuquerque Army Air Base support facilities → B Reactor, Hanford → Chicago Pile-1 site → Clinton Engineer Works → Clinton Laboratories, Oak Ridge → Columbia University Manhattan Project laboratories → Dayton Project facilities → Fernald Feed Materials Production Center precursor facilities → Hanford Engineer Works → Hanford, Washington → Harvard University cyclotron laboratory → Iowa Ordnance Plant → K-25 gaseous diffusion plant → Linde Air Products uranium facilities → Los Alamos Laboratory → Los Alamos Trinity test preparation areas → Los Alamos, New Mexico → Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis → Manhattan Engineer District headquarters in New York City → Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Hanford unit → Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Los Alamos unit → Manhattan Project National Historical Park – Oak Ridge unit → Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory → Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago → Niagara Falls uranium processing plants → Oak Ridge, Tennessee → Princeton University theoretical physics group facilities → Project Y technical area at Los Alamos → S-50 thermal diffusion plant → Sandia Base early nuclear weapons assembly facilities → Sante Fe office of the Manhattan Engineer District → Site W, Hanford production complex → Site W, Washington, D.C. offices → Site X, Oak Ridge production complex → Site Y, Los Alamos laboratory complex → T Plant, Hanford → Tinian Island B-29 staging facilities → Trinity test site, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range → University of California, Berkeley Radiation Laboratory → Weldon Spring Ordnance Works → Wendover Army Air Field training facilities → X-10 Graphite Reactor → Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant →
hasTimePeriod	World War II →
hasUse	nuclear weapons research → plutonium production → uranium enrichment → weapons design and testing →
significantEvent	Trinity nuclear test → development of the first nuclear weapons →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Trinity test site, New Mexico → V-Site buildings ("Manhattan Project sites in New Mexico") →	category
Ashley Pond II ("Manhattan Project site") →	associatedWith
Los Alamos Historical Museum ("Manhattan Project-era Los Alamos") →	exhibits
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Historic District →	hasCategory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee ("K-25 site (former gaseous diffusion plant)") →	hasFacility
H Reactor ("Manhattan Project legacy facilities") →	partOf