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    was, helped the U.S. to start the Manhattan Project in 1942, and supplied crucial expertise and materials that contributed to the project's successful...
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  • development, leading to the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, and catalyzed Allied technological cooperation during World War II. The Tizard mission...
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    before the Manhattan Project in the United States, the British efforts were kept classified, and as such had to be referred to by code even within the highest...
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    of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, and in July 1945 British permission required by the agreement was given for the use of nuclear weapons...
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    The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United...
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  • who also worked on the Manhattan Project. Of these, 21 won the Prize in Physics, four won the Prize in Chemistry, and one won the Peace Prize. "All Nobel...
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    Tube Alloys with the American Manhattan Project. As overall head of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, James Chadwick forged a close...
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    War. At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, it was merged with the American Manhattan Project. The British contribution to the Manhattan Project saw British...
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    Lise Meitner (category Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism)
    but he managed to survive the war. She declined an offer to join Frisch on the British contribution to the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory...
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  • Windscale Piles (category Nuclear research institutes in the United Kingdom)
    the director of the Manhattan Project, and ensured that the British contribution to the Manhattan Project was complete and wholehearted. After the war...
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    The Manhattan Project feed materials program located and procured uranium ores, and refined and processed them into feed materials for use in the Manhattan...
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    Manhattan (/mænˈhætən, mən-/ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive...
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    Operation Hurricane (category British nuclear testing in Australia)
    project. The British contribution to the Manhattan Project included assistance in the development of gaseous diffusion technology at the SAM Laboratories...
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    John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (category British governors of Bengal)
    August 1943, which paved the way for the British contribution to the Manhattan Project. In 1945 Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under Statute...
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    the Manhattan Project, and needed to determine whether implosion was a viable choice to detonate the atomic bomb that would be used a year later. The...
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    Gen 75 Committee (category 1945 in British politics)
    the British contribution to the Manhattan Project. A British mission led by Akers assisted in the development of gaseous diffusion technology at the SAM...
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    Perseus (spy) (category Manhattan Project)
    Laboratory during the development of the Manhattan Project, and consequently, would have been instrumental for the Soviets in the development of nuclear...
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    Alsos Mission (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    use to the Manhattan Project or worth denying to the Soviet Union. It also investigated German chemical and biological weapon development and the means...
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    Philip Burton Moon (category Manhattan Project people)
    one of the British scientists who participated in the United States' Manhattan Project, Britain's Tube Alloys, and was involved in nuclear weapon development...
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    Egon Bretscher (category Manhattan Project people)
    led to his involvement in the British atomic bomb research project Tube Alloys and his membership of the British Mission to the Manhattan Project at Los...
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    The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret scientific laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and overseen by the University...
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    Otto Robert Frisch (category Manhattan Project people)
    also that of the Manhattan Project on which Frisch worked as part of the British delegation. Frisch and Rudolf Peierls worked together in the Physics Department...
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  • UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 (category 2003 in the United Kingdom)
    following its ratification by the US Senate in 2006. The allegedly one-sided treaty allows the US to demand extradition of British citizens and other nationals...
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    William Penney, Baron Penney (category Manhattan Project people)
    head of the British delegation working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos Laboratory, Penney initially carried out calculations to predict the damage...
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    September 15, 1776, the Americans had abandoned the fort, and the British took Lower Manhattan. At the end of the war in 1783, the Battery was the center of Evacuation...
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    for his contribution to American new town development and his innovative planning work in India, including the master plan of Chandigarh, the new capital...
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    allocated to the Manhattan Project allowed for the recruitment and concentration of capable scientists on the project. In Germany, on the other hand...
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    and the Atomic Energy Commission assumed responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. The Act was subsequently amended to promote...
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    Rudolf Peierls (category Manhattan Project people)
    German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined...
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    At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, it was merged with the American Manhattan Project. The British government considered nuclear weapons to be a...
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