| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Pupin Hall, New York City | ||
| Hanford B Reactor, Hanford Site - Manhattan Project NHP | ||
| 1942/12/02 | Enrico Fermi and George Weil demonstrate the World's first nuclear reactor | Site of the First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction, Chicago |
| 1943/00/00 | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos | |
| 1943/00/00 | X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| 1943/03/23 | Philip C Leahy establishes his headquarters at a newly purchased a $10,500, 55 acre gravel pit next to the Gunnison River and begins to build a new uranium refinery. Leahy uses the small log cabin as an office. | Atomic Legacy Cabin, Grand Junction |
| 1943/04/00 | Richard Feynman arrives at Los Alamos. | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos |
| 1944/00/00 | American Chain and Cable swages (reduces the diameter) uranium rods at its Bridgeport, Connecticut, facility under contract for the Du Pont Company to support the manufacture of uranium slugs for the Manhattan Project. | American Chain Company Plant, Bridgeport, CT |
| 1946/03/00 | By 1946, more than 2.6 million pounds of uranium oxide, about 14 percent of the total uranium in the Manhattan Project, have been extracted from various mins on the Colorado Plateau. | Atomic Legacy Cabin, Grand Junction |
| Data | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance: | Military |
| Motif: | War |
| Historic Event: | World War II |
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