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  2. Brighter than a Thousand Suns (book) - Wikipedia

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    The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. The book first appeared in the fall of 1956, when it was serialized in 47 installments in a West German newspaper. [2] It then appeared in book form by Alfred Scherz Verlag with the title Heller als tausend Sonnen.

  3. Manhattan Project - Wikipedia

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    Manhattan District From top to bottom, left to right: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor K-25, the primary uranium enrichment site The Hanford B Reactor used for plutonium production The Gadget implosion device at Los Alamos Alsos soldiers dismantle the Haigerloch pile of the German nuclear weapons program The Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

  4. Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago beginning in 1944, As a physicist and mathematician, he worked immediately under Eugene Wigner, director of the Theoretical Physics group. The group's theoretical work provided the basis for the Hanford, Washington fission reactor.

  5. Timeline of the Manhattan Project - Wikipedia

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    The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Army component of ...

  6. List of Nobel laureates who worked on the Manhattan Project

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    Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-585-38881-6. OCLC 49569088. Pais, Abraham (1991). Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy and Polity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852049-8

  7. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...

  8. Review: ‘A Compassionate Spy’ is a Manhattan Project ...

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    The film hasn’t changed. But the context certainly has. The latest Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” opening Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, made its world premiere late ...

  9. J. Robert Oppenheimer - Wikipedia

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈ ɒ p ən h aɪ m ər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.