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Split the Atom
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Writes a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt but is ignored by the government.
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Discovered fission
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Hitler strikes the UK and gets the USA's attention
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President decides to go ahead with the development of the atomic bomb
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The code name for the Atomic Bomb project
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Head of Chicago research.
First controlled nuclear reaction occured -
Makes the decision to make the bomb, he dies in the office
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The test of the first nuclear bomb. It happed in Almagorda, New Mexico.
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Bomb exploded 1900 feet above the ground.
70,000 people killed instantly
200,000 people died due to the effects of Bomb. -
Bomb exploded just above the ground
70,000 died by the end of the year -
Japan surrenders
