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A personal account of work on the Manhattan Project in Chicago by one of thefew remaining survivors of the war-time project is given, illustrating, amongother things, how absurd things can happen at a time of great stress andconcern.. As is well known, Los Alamos was the site specializing in the physicsof the bomb while Chicago emphasized metallurgical and chemical research.Nevertheless, physics played a significant role in Chicago, as well. That iswhere Fermi constructed the worlds first uranium pile under the stands of Staggfield, a site at which this author got seriously irradiated. Some curiousevents occurring after the bomb was dropped are also related. In addition, atthis time of public protest by sincere people who question the ethics ofAmerica for dropping the bomb on innocent civilians, certain facts, obviouslyunknown to the protesters, are presented which place the bombing in a ratherdifferent light.

Work on the Manhattan Project, Subsequent Events, and Little Known Facts Related to its Use