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...
68 KB (8,892 words) - 22:32, 4 May 2025
Tizard Mission (redirect from British Technical and Scientific Mission)
development, leading to the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, and catalyzed Allied technological cooperation during World War II. The Tizard mission...
23 KB (2,905 words) - 23:49, 17 April 2025
Tube Alloys (redirect from Tube Alloy Project)
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...
71 KB (9,418 words) - 22:07, 12 April 2025
Quebec Agreement (redirect from American–British–Canadian Council)
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...
61 KB (7,831 words) - 15:58, 1 February 2025
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...
186 KB (22,197 words) - 18:50, 17 May 2025
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...
12 KB (414 words) - 20:25, 20 February 2025
Windscale fire (redirect from The Windscale Fire)
Tube Alloys with the American Manhattan Project. As overall head of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, James Chadwick forged a close...
63 KB (7,837 words) - 15:52, 12 May 2025
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...
28 KB (3,024 words) - 17:27, 11 February 2025
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...
111 KB (13,380 words) - 21:21, 16 May 2025
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...
66 KB (9,290 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2025
The Manhattan Project feed materials program located and procured uranium ores, and refined and processed them into feed materials for use in the Manhattan...
112 KB (14,080 words) - 20:27, 27 April 2025
Manhattan (/mænˈhætən, mən-/ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive...
307 KB (30,889 words) - 21:19, 15 May 2025
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...
57 KB (6,998 words) - 18:03, 16 March 2025
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...
57 KB (7,073 words) - 20:37, 7 March 2025
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...
24 KB (2,586 words) - 08:53, 24 April 2025
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...
22 KB (2,772 words) - 23:04, 2 April 2022
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...
36 KB (4,069 words) - 13:44, 15 May 2025
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...
47 KB (6,093 words) - 12:41, 23 April 2025
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...
5 KB (449 words) - 14:40, 11 February 2024
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...
10 KB (1,027 words) - 00:06, 6 April 2025
The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret scientific laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and overseen by the University...
129 KB (16,906 words) - 20:56, 21 April 2025
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...
19 KB (1,941 words) - 01:22, 9 February 2025
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...
23 KB (2,736 words) - 10:33, 9 February 2025
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...
39 KB (4,827 words) - 19:55, 1 March 2025
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...
121 KB (10,904 words) - 01:00, 10 April 2025
Albert Mayer (planner) (section Notable projects)
for his contribution to American new town development and his innovative planning work in India, including the master plan of Chandigarh, the new capital...
10 KB (1,238 words) - 18:53, 10 February 2025
German nuclear program during World War II (redirect from German atomic bomb project)
allocated to the Manhattan Project allowed for the recruitment and concentration of capable scientists on the project. In Germany, on the other hand...
76 KB (9,792 words) - 11:56, 17 May 2025
Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (redirect from The Atomic Energy Act of 1946)
and the Atomic Energy Commission assumed responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. The Act was subsequently amended to promote...
25 KB (2,981 words) - 15:04, 24 February 2025
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...
43 KB (5,080 words) - 08:54, 12 January 2025
At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, it was merged with the American Manhattan Project. The British government considered nuclear weapons to be a...
189 KB (21,603 words) - 09:04, 17 May 2025