Smyth Report
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![Richard Tolman (left) and Henry D. Smyth (right)](/Images/godic/202502/11/Richard_Tolman_and_Henry_D._Smyth0418.jpg")
![Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (right) and his advisors review the 2nd Armored Division in Germany in July 1945. Left to right: Major General Floyd L. Parks, General George S. Patton, Jr., Colonel William H. Kyle, John J. McCloy, Harvey H. Bundy](/Images/godic/202502/11/Dignitaries_review_the_2nd_Armored_Division_during_the_Potsdam_Conference0418.jpg")
![The original cover of the lithograph edition of the Smyth Report, with the red title stamp. This is the copy in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.](/Images/godic/202502/11/Smyth_Report_cover_Atomic_Bombs0418.jpg")
The Smyth Report is the common name of an administrative history written by physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop atomic bombs during World War II. The full title of the report is A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. It was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9.