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The Manhattan Project

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The following documents demonstrate the tremendous concern of the Association of Manhattan Project Scientists toward nuclear power in peacetime. On the right is one of many drafts that shaped a collective statement from the scientists released just after the war. These drafts were edited by Dr. Francis Bonner and Dr. Irving Kaplan, lead scientists who worked intimately with Nobel Prize chemist Dr. Harold Urey in the development of the atom bomb.

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