The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was initially assigned management of the construction work for the atomic bomb project. Because much of the early research had been performed at Columbia University, in Manhattan), the project was called the Manhattan Engineer District. (Corps of Engineer districts are named after the city where they are located.) The project eventually became known as the Manhattan Project.
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