Atom Bomb

Marie Curie discovers radioactive radium and polonium

Jan 1, 1898

Albert Einstein develops theory of the relationship of mass to energy

Jan 1, 1905

Albert Einstein informs President Roosevelt of German Atomic Research

Aug 1, 1939

Suggests to him the possibilty of the technology to be used as a bomb. Roosevelt initiates US committee to explore.

Manhattan Project Begins

Sep 1, 1942

Focus is to beat the Germans to the bomb

Fermi & Szilard demnstrate first nuclear chain reaction

Dec 1, 1942

First Atomic Bomb is detonated near Los Alamos

Jul 16, 1945

US drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

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