Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Dr Robert Oppenheimer
Standard Name: Oppenheimer, Dr Robert
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25 September 1942: The US Army initiated the Manhattan Project,...
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25 September 1942
The US Army initiated the Manhattan Project, headed by General Leslie Groves
and Dr Robert Oppenheimer
, to conduct research towards an atomic bomb.
16 July 1945: The world's first detonation of an atomic...
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16 July 1945
The world's first detonation of an atomic bomb took place at the Trinity Site at Alamogordo: in the desert outside Los Alamos, New Mexico.
6 August 1945: The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima:...
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6 August 1945
The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima: by early twenty-first century the best estimate of those killed on the spot stood at approaching 140,000 people, plus many thousands more with obvious, serious injury.