MED

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United States Army military formation World War II military program nuclear weapons development project

MED is the commonly used abbreviation for the Manhattan Engineer District, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project that directed the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Aliases (1)

Manhattan Engineer District ×49

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Army military formation → World War II military program → nuclear weapons development project →
alsoKnownAs	MED → Manhattan District → Manhattan Project →
chiefScientist	J. Robert Oppenheimer →
conductedTest	Trinity nuclear test →
conflict	World War II →
country	United States of America →
director	Leslie R. Groves Jr. →
dissolved	1947 →
employed	Edward Teller → Enrico Fermi → Ernest O. Lawrence → Hans Bethe → Leo Szilard → Niels Bohr → Richard Feynman →
fundedBy	United States federal government →
governedBy	United States War Department →
headquartersLocation	New York City → Oak Ridge, Tennessee → Washington, D.C. →
impact	initiated the nuclear age →
inception	1942 →
locationOfActivity	Chicago, Illinois → Hanford, Washington → Los Alamos, New Mexico → Oak Ridge, Tennessee → University of California, Berkeley →
militaryBranch	United States Army →
notableEvent	development of the first nuclear weapons →
notableProject	Fat Man atomic bomb → Little Boy atomic bomb →
operatedBy	United States Army Corps of Engineers →
oversawConstructionOf	Clinton Engineer Works → Hanford Engineer Works → Los Alamos Laboratory →
partOf	United States Army Corps of Engineers →
purpose	coordination of nuclear fission research for military use → development of atomic bombs →
successor	United States Atomic Energy Commission →
testDate	16 July 1945 →
testSite	Trinity test site →
usedTechnology	gun-type nuclear weapon design → implosion-type nuclear weapon design → plutonium production reactors → uranium enrichment →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Manhattan District → Manhattan Engineer District → Manhattan Engineer District →	alsoKnownAs