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Authority
Government & Military
Trace the Manhattan Engineer District, AEC, ERDA, DOE, military commands, field offices, and other government authorities responsible for nuclear work.
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Enter the network through institutions and people.
The nuclear weapons complex extended far beyond the federal laboratories and production plants usually shown on maps. Government offices, military commands, universities, corporations, engineering firms, specialty manufacturers, scientists, technicians, and worker populations formed a distributed system whose relationships survive across many different record collections.
ORGANIZATION → CONTRACT → PLACE → WORK → MATERIAL → RECORD
Research pathways
Follow the organizations behind the work.
This gateway organizes the institutional network without treating every proposed connection as established fact. Public relationships become active only when the supporting evidence is ready for citation and public presentation.
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Research
Universities & Research Institutions
Follow universities, institutes, laboratories, faculty, and research groups into contracts, experiments, facilities, materials, and surviving institutional archives.
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Industry
Industrial Contractors
Recover the corporations, machine shops, chemical companies, fabricators, electronics firms, and suppliers that supported weapons production and research.
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Infrastructure
Engineering & Construction
Connect architects, engineers, construction firms, electrical contractors, piping trades, and service companies to the buildings and systems they created or maintained.
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Components
Specialty Manufacturers
Trace precision components, instruments, ceramics, glass, metals, sources, electronics, and other specialized production through procurement and shipment records.
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People
Scientists & Technical Personnel
Use personnel, laboratory, correspondence, project, and archival records to place scientists and technical personnel within documented work and institutional relationships.
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Workforce
Worker Populations
Reconnect occupations and work groups to facilities, tasks, materials, monitoring practices, incidents, contractors, and the records needed to reconstruct occupational history.
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Recovery
Unresolved Organizations
Preserve contractor names, aliases, code designations, referenced suppliers, and other institutional leads whose exact roles or records remain unresolved.
Follow archival research →Relationship standard
A name is not a connection.
Rosetta distinguishes an organization appearing in the historical record from a documented relationship between that organization and a facility, contract, material, shipment, operation, or worker population. Each public connection must return to evidence.
How Rosetta evaluates evidence →Public release
Built from verified relationships.
The underlying research network is much larger than the public collection. Organizations and individual relationships are released selectively as citations are checked and evidence is prepared for public presentation.
The private THE ROSETTA WEB™ Master Evidence system remains separate from this website.
“The history of the nuclear weapons complex is also the history of the institutions and people that connected its places.”