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The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) was located at the University of Chicago. It was here the scientists were recruited to work on the theoretical aspects of building the atomic bomb. In 1945, months after the bombing of Hiroshima, about 90% (approximately 200) of Met Lab's scientists reorganized as the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc. and began to publish the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in a effort to influence government policy and to educate the general public regarding atomic energy and the atomic bomb.
A Collection of miscellaneous reference material extracted from the several collections comprising the Atomic Scientists Papers in the University of Chicago Library.
In September 1995 and again in 1996, additional accessions were made. Those materials make up Series II and Series III.