The Office of Scientific Research and Development was essentially the civilian side of the Manhattan Project. Interestingly this article was published in the s

The Office of Scientific Research and Development was essentially the civilian side of the Manhattan Project. Interestingly this article was published in the same month as Trinity, at which Vannevar Bush was present. The Manhattan Project itself was still a tightly held secret at this point. A contemporary picture of Bush: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=3dcd2f9a3fce368f http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=3dcd2f9a3fce36...