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FDR set up the Advisory Committee on Uranium in 1939. -
Albert Einstein presents the potential military purpose of the fission reaction to the U.S. government -
The U.S. gave scientists $6,000 to start research under supervison -
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. -
This really made the Manhattan Project into more of a military project with the scientists assisting. -
American, British and Canadian Scientists trying to weaponize nuclear fission for military purposes.
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Los Alamos is built to assemble a bomb from all the nuclear matieral that is made from all across the country -
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
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The trinity bomb is detonated is the desert of New Mexico. The mushroom cloud from the blast reaches 40,000 feet high. -
Leslie Groves is released from his duties on the Manhattan project