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Enrico Fermi Proposes Neutron Bombardment
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Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann successfully split Uranium Atoms
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Niels Bohr announces the discovery of fission.
Announced during a conference at George Washington University
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein,
The letter stated that it was possible for uranium atoms to be split, which would possiobly allow for an extremely powerful bomb to be created.
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FDR's Grant
President Roosevelt gives 2 billion dollars to support the building of the first atomic bomb.
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Manhattan Project Began
Manhattan Project was chiefly carried out in three secret scientific cities: Hanford, Washington, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. formation Citation: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1644.html
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The United States introduced its own nuclear program under the Army Corps of Engineers
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Colonel Leslie Groves is placed in charge of the Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes the Project's Scientific Director
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Enrico Fermi Preforms First Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction
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First Atomic Bomb is tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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First Atomic Bomb was detinated
The explosion created a crater which measured nearly 2,400 feet across and was equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT. Information Citation: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1644.html Image Citation: http://wodumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/A-test-nuclear-explosion-codenamed-Baker-part-of-Operation-Crossroads-at-Bikini-Atoll-in-the-Marshall-Islands-on-July-25-1946.-The-40-kiloton-atomic-bomb-was-detonated-by-the-U.S.-at-a-depth-of-27-meters-below-the-ocean-sur-960x541.jpg -
"Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima
100,000 people were killed due to the attack Information Citation:http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1644.html
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"Fat Man" was dropped over Nagasaki
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