Du Pont Bomb memo

This memo's goal was to express the company's profound gratitude to all du Pont employees who had a part in the atomic program.

They were asked first to engineer, design, and construct a small-scale semi-works plant that was to be operated by the University of Chicago. In addition to the Clinton and Hanford projects, which main goal was to produced plutonium for the Manhattan project, on which the Explosives and EngineeringDepartments did such a splendid job, the du Pont Co... See more

Du Pont hesitated to accept the proposed responsibility for two reasons: the first was that the company was already so heavily burdened with war work, accepted at the urgent request of the armed services, the second was that du Pont is a chemical company, and while it has done considerable pioneering work, it has always been in the general field of... See more