Libby studied radiochemistry at Berkeley in the 1930s and subsequently worked on the Manhattan Project. |
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The sheer audacity and scope of the Manhattan Project remain impressive today. |
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He served his time with the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to develop the atomic bomb. |
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The Manhattan Project was and is still one of the most secretive projects ever created in United States history. |
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Even back in the Manhattan Project in 1943 it was found that animals exposed to radiation lived longer and had more offspring than uncontaminated controls. |
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The offspring of the Manhattan Project are circling back toward Manhattan. |
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What is needed is a political commitment to an effort on a scale of the Manhattan Project to produce the first atom bomb. |
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That the cooperation with the Kremlin had limits was shown in the Manhattan Project, the secret Anglo-American effort to acquire an atomic weapon before the Germans. |
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The physicist Joseph Rotblat was the only scientist to leave the project that developed the atom bomb, the Manhattan Project, for reasons of personal conscience. |
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The Manhattan Project produced the first recorded controlled chain reaction. |
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He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. |
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The large population notwithstanding, Hanford Engineer Works, of the Manhattan Project, was so secret that the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not know about it. |
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Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, also studied at Cambridge under Rutherford and Thomson. |
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The Manhattan Project resulted in the two nuclear weapons dropped over Japan. |
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However, although British scientists knew well the areas of the Manhattan Project in which they had worked they knew little of the other areas. |
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Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, and ensured that British participation was complete and wholehearted. |
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Producing plutonium in useful quantities for the first time was a major part of the Manhattan Project during World War II that developed the first atomic bombs. |
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During World War II, the Manhattan Project built several planned communities to provide accommodations for scientists, engineers, industrial workers and their families. |
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Several key British scientists worked as part of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, but after the war the Americans ended cooperation on nuclear weapons. |
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During the Second World War, Britain commenced a nuclear weapons project, known as Tube Alloys, but the 1943 Quebec Agreement merged it with the American Manhattan Project. |
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Chadwick, Oliphant, Peierls and Simon were summoned to the United States by the director of Tube Alloys, Sir Wallace Akers, to work with the Manhattan Project. |
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