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Definition of Manhattan project
1. Noun. A former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II.
Group relationships: Executive Branch, Executive Office Of The President
2. Noun. Code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manhattan Project
Literary usage of Manhattan project
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... however, a privileged effort that would have involved bypassing regular
legislative procedures and controls. The manhattan project had been all very ..."
2. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"The manhattan project Mystique The Prophesy A hundred years ago, old John Hendrix
lay grief-stricken on the hard ground of Pine Ridge, near the Great Smoky ..."
3. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"In its totality the human genome project will cost billions of dollars as did
the "Manhattan" project four decades earlier, which had as its purpose the ..."
4. Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The Environmental Legacy of by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The manhattan project The quest for nuclear explosives. inspired by the fear that
... The term "manhattan project" has now become a byword for an enormous ..."
5. The History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers edited by Joe N. Ballard (1999)
"The manhattan project was the United States' effort to develop an atomic weapon
during World War II. In three short years, the project brought atomic ..."
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