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The Manhattan Project (Fall 2009)

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Seventy years ago, Albert Einstein's letter to the president led to the creation of a massive federal program -- and the invention of the world's first atomic bomb.

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Authors & Contributors
Walker, Mark
Ellen D. McGehee
Dahn, Ryan
Farrell, Don A.
Thomas, Linda Carrick
Hoerlin, Bettina
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Canadian Military History
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Diplomatic History
Publishers
Micronesian Productions
Trillium
Raffaello Cortina Editore
Washington State University Press
W. W. Norton & Co.
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Atomic bomb
World War II
Manhattan Project
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Physics
People
Heisenberg, Werner
Fermi, Enrico
Hahn, Otto (1879-1968)
Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von
Seaborg, Glenn T.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Tinian (Northern Mariana Islands)
Ohio (U.S.)
Tennessee (U.S.)
Japan
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
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