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Manhattan District The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Active 1942–1946 Disbanded 15 August 1947 Country United States United Kingdom Canada Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Garrison/HQ Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. Anniversaries 13 August 1942 Engagements Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of France Allied invasion of ...
It documented the development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project. [1] It contained video biographies of Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr. It had illustrated essays that also documented Edward Teller, Lise Meitner, Leo Szilard, Hans Bethe, and Albert Einstein. [2] [3] [4]
The Manhattan Project began in October 1941, just before U.S. entry into World War II. [1] Most of the project was concerned with producing the necessary fissile materials, but in early 1943, the project director, Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves Jr., created the Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer to design and build atomic bombs. [2]
The Manhattan Project. In 1941, two months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D Roosevelt approved a programme to develop an atomic bomb.
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-1753-5. Nichols, Kenneth (1987). The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America's Nuclear Policies Were Made. New York: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-06910-X. Smith, Ray (February 9, 2013).
The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the course of history, as its operation launched the Atomic Age.
The beginning of the nuclear age is not a single subject but a series of subjects that lead one to another in an unending chain reaction...That this is tacitly recognized is the most valuable aspect of The Day after Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb, Jon Else's documentary feature that opens today (January 20, 1981) at the ...
The pre-Hiroshima nuclear history of the United States began with the Manhattan Project.This Manhattan Project was the nuclear program for warfare. Even before the first nuclear weapons had been developed, scientists involved with the Manhattan Project were divided over the use of the weapon.