DuPont and the Manhattan Project

Presenter: Lucas R. Clawson

The DuPont Company played a major role in arming and equipping America’s military during World War II.  Though better known for manufacturing things like smokeless powder, TNT, Nylon, and Teflon, DuPont also had a hand in the Manhattan Project and the development of atomic weapons.  Come learn about how DuPont helped usher in the Nuclear Age in this talk by Hagley Historian Lucas R. Clawson.