Memo re: Russia and the atomic bomb , September 11, 1945 Scanned version (3 pages) | Printer Friendly Version (PDF) ... "The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon", June 30, 1947 Scanned version (39 pages) | Printer Friendly Version (PDF)
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The Atomic Archive explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past to the present. Read biographies of A-bomb father Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi's dispassionate account of the Trinity Test. ... Welcome to the Atomic Archive.
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Albert Einstein and other scientists told Roosevelt of Nazi Germany efforts to build an atomic bomb - the United States Government began the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb. ... Testing The Gadget aka Atomic Bomb...
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About the Atomic Bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was the target of the first atomic bomb used against civil population in history. Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki.
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The Manhattan Project The United States concealed its project to develop an atomic bomb under the name "Manhattan Engineer District." Popularly known as the Manhattan Project, it carried out the first successful atomic explosion on July 16, 1945, in a deserted area called Jornada del Muerto ("Journey of the dead")
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Documents on the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form. In most cases, the originals are in the U.S. National Archives. Other aspects of the decision are shown from accounts by the participants.
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To see an article about whether the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was necessary, click Article. ... Chronology on the Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki (by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation).
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The first atomic bomb is detonated; 1945; ... Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ... By the end of 1941, British studies had outlined the materials requirements for an atomic bomb and uranium research was going on at about 12 American universities. In 1942 Fermi's...
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