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...ernment secrecy. Founded in 1945, by members including participants in the Manhattan Project to build the nuclear weapon|atomic bomb, its work is currently organized in

...Harvard University, was the leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project and later served as Dwight D. Eisenhower|President Eisenhower's Science Adv ==Manhattan Project ==

...943, Bohr was invited to the [[United States of America]] to work on the [[Manhattan Project]], and made contributions to the development of modulated neutron initiator

Energy and Environmental Research</ref> During the [[Manhattan Project]], enriched uranium was given the codename ''oralloy'', a shortened version

...r which contained a list of names of the leading scientists working on the Manhattan Project - the atomic bomb.<ref name=VenonaIntro /></blockquote>

===''World War II and the Manhattan Project''=== The [[Manhattan Project]] was the secret [[United States of America]] project conducted primarily d

on the [[Manhattan Project]], to be their [[studio engineer]], and Miriam was the office manager.

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...however, did not prevent it from being of pure scientific interests to the Manhattan project scientists, among which there are J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the

...August, 1945. They were developed in a highly secret wartime program, the Manhattan Project during the war. That Project dealt with the technology, not initially poli ...tainty if the bomb would work. President Harry S Truman was unaware of the Manhattan Project until after he became President, and was briefed on 25 April. At least wwo

...2 value). That accomplishment led to his next assignment of managing the [[Manhattan Project]], the U.S. program to build the first nuclear weapons.

...Chicago]], where he was soon joined by [[Edward Teller]], to work in the [[Manhattan Project]], the US atomic-bomb program. Fermi led the construction of the first nuc

...]] fuel. The US forged the way on both paths during its [[World War II]] [[Manhattan Project]]. The fundamental aspects of both paths are well understood, but both are

...ut the influence that Einstein's letter had on the decision to start the [[Manhattan Project]] two years later. For instance, [[Abraham Pais]], an important biographer ...of Robert Oppenheimer's top secret summer seminar, an early stage of the [[Manhattan Project]] that was taking place in Berkeley. The participants reviewed the general

...[[uranium ]] as an explosive. By early 1944, he was also assigned to the [[Manhattan Project]] as an expert to troubleshoot the effectiveness of [[thermal diffusion]] a

...of fast and slow explosive, to help form the appropriate waveform. In the Manhattan Project, the chemical explosive systems were the responsibility of George Kistiakow ...of fast and slow explosive, to help form the appropriate waveform. In the Manhattan Project, the chemical explosive systems were the responsibility of George Kistiakow

...h of the computer, following its first large-scale deployment during the [[Manhattan Project]] in [[World War II]] to model the process of nuclear detonation]]. It was

...nological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States ... and only the [[Manhattan Project]] to build the [[atomic bomb]] in [[World War II]] was comparable in a wart

Quite early in the Manhattan Project (summer 1942) and later in the Soviet program, long before anyone had built

In 1958, George Kistiakowsky, a key Manhattan Project scientist and Science Advisor to the President in the Dwight D. Eisenhower|