Much of the most direct science and technology shaping the Manhattan Project had its origins in the nuclear physics research of the 1930s.

To detonate the bomb, the explosives were ignited, releasing a shock wave that compressed the inner plutonium and led to its explosion. Atomic Glossary. Atom: ...

5 дней назад · American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the Manhattan Project, with the goal of developing the atomic bomb, and Edward Teller was among ...

The Manhattan Project was the Anglo-American effort to build nuclear weapons during World War II. It is commonly regarded as one of the most successful, if ...

21 июл. 2023 г. · The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs during World War II. Its results had profound impacts on history.

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. Timeline of the Manhattan · James C. Marshall · Tube Alloys · Calutron Girls

In 1938, three chemists working in a laboratory in Berlin made a discovery that would alter the course of history: they split the uranium atom.

The Manhattan Project is the story of some of the most renowned scientists of the century combining with industry, the military, and tens of thousands of ...

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Oppenheimer's understanding of fast neutrons and the logistics behind producing an atom bomb helped the Manhattan Project achieve its goal in 1945.