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Enest Rutherford infamously splits the atom
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Ernest O Lawrence had just built the worlds first cylotron in Berkley England.
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In 1931 RobertJ. Van de Graaf built the electrostatic generator.
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James Chadwick makes the dicovery of the neutron.
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J.D. Cockroft and E.T.S. Walton also split the atom
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Lawrence, M. Stanly Livingston, and Milton White start to operate the cylotron.
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Enrico Fermi produces Fission
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Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann dicover the process of Fission in Uranium samples.
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Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch approve the Hahn Strassmann and take it to Niels Bohr.
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Bohr reports on the Hahn-Strassmann and becomes involed in a meeting on theoretical physics in Washington United States.
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Albert Eienstein writes to Roosevelt that reasearch on chain reactions could lead to more powerful bombs.
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Nazi Germany invades Poland.
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Roosevelt informs Eienstien that he has set up th Uranium Commitee
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The Uranium Commitee says that the Government to buy Uranium and other minerals.
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Vannarvar Bush is named Head of the National Defence Research Commitee. The Uranium Commitee is appointed the scientific branch of the organisation.
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Glenn T. Seaborg's research group discovers Plutonium
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Seaborg's group demonstrate that Plutonium is fissionable.
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Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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The British conclude that an atomic bomb can be made.
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Bush allows the National Academy of Science to see the president.
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The Imperial Japanese navy attack the U.S fleet anchored in Pearl Harbour.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
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The S-1 Executive gives Lawrence $400 000 to continue their electromagnetic research.
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Roosevelt approves the production of the atomic bomb.
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The whole research facility moves to the New Mexican desert.
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The American Island hopping campaign begins when they land at Guadalcanal.
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The Manhattan Engineer District is set up in New York.
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Robert J. Oppenheimer Convinces the Authorities that more fissionable material is needed to build the Bomb
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The Allies invade North Africa.
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Robert Oppenhiemer is appionted the new director of the Manhattan Project.
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The Axis Powers are forced to surrender in Tripolis North Africa.
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New researchers arrive at the Manhattan project in Los Alamos
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The Atomic bomb design is drawn up.
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Oppenheimer orders three times more Fissionable materials.
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Italy surrenders to the Allies. ( no wonder Hitler looks angry).
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The Allies launches the Normandy invasion. The biggest seaborne assult of all time.
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Tokyo is firebomed and 100 00 people die.
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President Roosevelt dies at the white house. Truman takes his place as president of the United States.
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The Germans surrender in Berlin and Hitler commits suicide in his Bunker in central Berlin.
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Tokyo is firebomed agin. This time causing 83 000 casualties.
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The Manhattan project is kept secret and Truman thinks about using the atomic bomb without warning.
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The First Atomic bomb tests are conducted in the Mexican desert.
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The Uranium filled atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima. The bomb is called ''littleboy''.
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The second plutonium filled bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. This bomb is called ''Fatman".
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After the Japanese surrender the Second World War was over. It finished six years and one day after it began. Some of the Japanese soldiers refused to surrender. The last one surrendered in 1975
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After the was the Manhattan Project was brocken up and demolished. Since they werew free to go most of the people never spoke of their years as a researcher or technitian.
