Abstract for the Ted Carlson Papers 

The Ted Carlson Papers is a collection of Mr. Carlson’s private papers and personal and professional correspondence between 1944 – 1946. The letters follow Mr. Carlson’s life from a college graduate student to serving in the United States Army and then lobbying for congressional support for the McMahon Bill on Atomic Energy. During Mr. Carlson’s time in the Army, he assisted with the atomic bomb project. The collection of letters documents an intimate first-hand account of the atomic bomb project.

Biographical note for the Ted Carlson Papers

Eric T. Carlson, known as Ted Carlson, was born in 1923 in Connecticut. In February 1944, he earned a BA degree in Chemistry from Wesleyan University and joined the Army in August 1944. His time in the Army was spent as a laboratory engineer, during this time he assisted with the atomic bomb project. He was discharged from the Army in 1946, at which time he took a position as a Research Assistant at the Monsanto Chemical Company.