Interview with Robert Holmberg, Who Worked on the Manhattan Project, September 22, 2005

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Courtesy of the Atomic Heritage Foundation, Holmberg, Robert, "Robert Holmberg's Interview," 22 September 2005

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Robert Holmberg was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and began working on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab and at Ames Laboratory in Iowa. He was then drafted into the Special Engineer Detachment and sent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He continued to work on nuclear research after the war.

Source-Dependent Questions

• What Iowa connections did Robert Holmberg describe with the creation of the atomic bomb?
• How did Holmberg describe the secrecy involved with the project? What did that communicate about the priority placed on the bomb?

Citation Information 

Holmberg, Robert, "Robert Holmberg's Interview," 22 September 2005. Courtesy of the Atomic Heritage Foundation