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The Manhattan Project
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was the code name for the US effort during World War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer
District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United Sta ....
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.... physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as director
of the weapons laboratory, who ordered the construction of the headquarters
on an isolated mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
After much difficulty an absorbent barrier suitable for separating isotopes
of uranium was developed and installed in the Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion
plant. Finally, in 1945, a uranium-235 of bomb purity was shipped to Los
Alamos, where it was fashioned into a gun-type weapon. In a barrel, one
piece of uranium was fired at anothe.... |
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