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5 TheManhattan ProjectNational Security History Series 5 Visit our Manhattan Project web site: RevisedF. G. GoslingOffice of History and Heritage ResourcesExecutive SecretariatOffice of ManagementDepartment of EnergyJanuary 2010 TheManhattan ProjectNational Security History Series 5 National Security History SeriesVolume I: The Manhattan Project : Making the Atomic BombVolume II: Building the Nuclear Arsenal: Cold War Nuclear Weapons Development and Production, 1946-1989 (in progress)Volume III: Nonproliferation and Stockpile Stewardship: The Nuclear Weapons Complex in the Post-Cold War World (projected)The National Security History Series is a joint Project of the Office of History and Heritage Resources and the National Nuclear Security to the 2010 editionIn a national survey at the turn of the millennium, journalists and historians ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb and the surrender of Japan to end the Second World War as the top story of the twentieth century

an atom’s nucleus, much as the planets orbit the sun. The second fundamental atomic particle, the proton, was “identified by Rutherford in 1919.” The Danish physicist Neils Bohr combined Rutherford’s atomic concepts with Max Planck’s quantum theory to produce the first modern model of the atom. In 1913, Bohr demonstrated

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