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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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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.
Westcott, Kathryn. “The Day the World Lit Up”. BBC News, BBC, 15 July 2005.
Lamont, Lansing. Day of Trinity. Atheneum, 1965.
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
237
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...
