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Agencies were formed to control Nuclear weapons
FDR set up the Advisory Committee on Uranium in 1939. -
Albert Einstein presents the potential of the fission reaction
Albert Einstein presents the potential military purpose of the fission reaction to the U.S. government -
Scientists given funding
The U.S. gave scientists $6,000 to start research under supervison -
Leslie Groves is put in charge of all Manhattan project activity
This is when the U.S. Government was getting closer to putting this project on the top of their priorities list and the project was offically going to launch. -
The Army Corps of Engineers joined the Manhattan Project
This really made the Manhattan Project into more of a military project with the scientists assisting. -
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Manhattan Project
American, British and Canadian Scientists trying to weaponize nuclear fission for military purposes. -
Los Alamos is built
Los Alamos is built to assemble a bomb from all the nuclear matieral that is made from all across the country -
Policy Committee for the Manhattan Project
The U.S. established a policy committee with the UK and Canada to regulate the production of fissionable material and many British and Canadian scientists moved to the U.S. to continue their work -
First atomic bomb is successfully detonated
The trinity bomb is detonated is the desert of New Mexico. The mushroom cloud from the blast reaches 40,000 feet high. -
Leslie Groves leaves the Manhattan project
Leslie Groves is released from his duties on the Manhattan project