Under the Manhattan Project, several secret facilities were set up to build and test bomb components.
Leading up to and during the Manhattan Project, considerable collaboration between American and foreign-born scientists took place.
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But the immigrants who arrived as refugees from Europe produced a legacy that outlasted the Manhattan project.
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In fact, many of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II were refugees from Europe.
After the Manhattan Project's triumph in 1945 an equivalent civilian economy project during the postwar years was building nuclear plants.
The Manhattan Project, for example, employed more than 130, 000 people at over thirty different sites across North America and Europe.
Hanford became a focal point of U.S. nuclear efforts beginning in 1943, when aspects of the Manhattan Project were moved there.
Then there is the Manhattan Project, the name given to America's development of the atomic bomb during the second world war.
You once gave us the Manhattan Project and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Manhattan Project showed that it is possible to develop a nuclear weapon even when limited to the technologies of the 1940s.
Robert Oppenheimer, that effort came to be known as the Manhattan Project.
Then in the run-up to World War II, the U.S. government launched the Manhattan Project and generally ramped up spending on military research.
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At Iowa State he scored a research gig studying rare earth magnets at nearby Ames Laboratory, famed for its work on the Manhattan Project.
Another spent his early years in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as his father worked on the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer, the free-spirited and controversial physicist who ran the scientific-side of the Manhattan Project, had the straight-laced and utterly conventional Brigadier General Leslie R.
The United States has developed many warhead-types since the Manhattan Project.
In 1944 Paul Tibbets was told about the Manhattan Project and ordered to pick a crew for what was called special bombing mission number 13.
But, in contrast to the histories of, say, the Manhattan project or the Internet, the stories behind these humbler sorts of invention may not be so well known.
Eli Hodapp, editor of a website called The Duke Nukem Forever List, reminds us the Suez Canal, the Channel Tunnel and the Manhattan Project were finished in less time.
When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.
After the Soviet Union broke America's atomic monopoly in 1949, several prominent scientists and politicians favoured the development of the hydrogen bomb, a fusion weapon hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs that the Manhattan Project had built.
It was built in the 1940s as part of the "Manhattan Project" to develop the first atomic weapon during World War II.
Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded George Koval -- an American-born Soviet spy -- with the highest honour of the Russian state for successfully providing critical information on the U.S. Manhattan project during the Second World War.
Leslie Groves, who ran the top-secret Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Eli Hodapp, editor of the Duke Nukem Forever List website, reminds us the Suez Canal and Manhattan Project were finished in less time.
Live from the NPR studios of BRYANT PARK in Midtown, Manhattan, this is THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT.
The move is new ground for closely held Related, which recently began work on its 26-acre Hudson Yards project in Manhattan, a mixed-used project that is the largest development in the city.
Although aided by the clear weather, the rescue effort in Southern Manhattan transformed into a massive body recovery and earthmoving project over the weekend.
Overlooking historic Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, this is the Bryant Park Project from NPR News.
Woodland, a Manhattan Project scientist, came up with the idea for bar codes while running his fingers through the sand, trying to figure out how to put a unique code on every item of merchandise that could be easily scanned by a mechanical device.
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