Voices of the Manhattan Project — Oral Histories

Hundreds of interviews with the scientists, engineers, soldiers and families who lived through the Manhattan Project.

The Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society recorded interviews with people who worked on the Manhattan Project, including many who knew Oppenheimer personally. Transcripts and recordings are free online.

These first-person stories bring the history down to human scale: the secret cities, the young families, the pressure of the work, and the mixed feelings that followed.

Part of the Boston Made Reader’s special collection Courage, Conscience & Service. Every book and document here is free to read.