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1 day ago · The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
5 days ago · The Manhattan Project; Personal Life and Relationships; Ethical Dilemmas and Reflections; Oppenheimer's Legacy; Conclusion; Trusted Sources; Biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, in New York City. Oppenheimer was the son of a wealthy Jewish family, and his father was a successful textile importer.
3 days ago · The National Park Service runs three different sites related to the World War II Manhattan Project. The one on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington was the first full-scale ...
3 days ago · Robert Franklin, assistant professor of history, shares the larger history of the Hanford site as well as lesser known stories of the community surrounding and supporting the Manhattan Project. Listen to the full episode on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
1 day ago · During the Manhattan Project, Teller advocated the development of a bomb using uranium hydride, which many of his fellow theorists said would be unlikely to work. [79] At Livermore, Teller continued work on the hydride bomb, and the result was a dud. [80]
3 days ago · When the Quebec Agreement merged his project with the American Manhattan Project, he became part of the British Mission, and worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory and in Washington, D.C. He surprised everyone by earning the almost-complete trust of project director Leslie R. Groves, Jr.
4 days ago · In the summer of 2023, cinema audiences flocked to the movie Oppenheimer, the epic telling of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the US Manhattan project that encompassed so many brilliant minds ...
