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The Chicago Met Lab

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A Top-Secret Lab
Incredible Tension
Taking Over the Quad
Military Crackdown
From Theories to Blueprints
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Quick Fact:
During the Manhattan Project, the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago (known as the “Met Lab”) was responsible for designing a viable method for plutonium production that could fuel a nuclear chain reaction in an atomic bomb.