History Of The Manhattan Project

There was no struggle in finding workers to do the basic jobs in the facilities. Areas where the Great Depression hit hard did not have trouble finding workers. The well paid work was welcomed in those areas (Monk 343). As people were eager to have a job that paid well they did not ask much about the tasks they were doing. The people hired at the sites were told nothing of the work they would do (Monk 343). In fact, many never found out until the end of the project. “It is one of the most extraordinary aspects of the Manhattan Project that the existence of an atomic-bomb building program was successfully kept secret from the very people who worked in the plants that supplied the necessary fissionable material” (Monk 343). The jobs they were