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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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  • as of 2023[update]. The following 26 Nobel laureates worked on the Manhattan Project: "All Nobel Prizes". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 19 October 2023....
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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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    Tube Alloys (category Use British English from May 2016)
    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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  • The mission also opened up channels of communication for jet engine and atomic bomb development, leading to the British contribution to the Manhattan...
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    The Manhattan Project was a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the...
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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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    The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California...
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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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    Manhattan (/mænˈhætən, mən-/ ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive...
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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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  • UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 (category 2003 in the United Kingdom)
    ratification by the US Senate in 2006. The treaty has been claimed to be one-sided because it allows the US to demand extradition of British citizens and...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Joseph Rotblat (category Manhattan Project people)
    2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on...
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    Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City. Lower...
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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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    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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    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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    physicist. He was director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb". Born in New...
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    Hanford Site (redirect from Hanford project)
    technological achievements. The town of Richland, established by the Manhattan Project, became self-governing in 1958, and residents were able to purchase their properties...
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    Robert F. Christy (category Manhattan Project people)
    physicist and later astrophysicist who was one of the last surviving people to have worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He briefly served as...
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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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  • Oppenheimer (film) (category Films about the Manhattan Project)
    film about Oppenheimer and his contributions to the Manhattan Project, with Cillian Murphy in negotiations to star. Due to his strained relationship with...
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    maxed-out contributions are located in New York City and, specifically, in Manhattan." "Downstate Pays More, Upstate Gets More: Does It Matter?". The Nelson...
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    Atomic spies (category Venona project)
    worked on the Manhattan Project were deeply conflicted about the ethical implications of their work, and some were actively opposed to the use of nuclear...
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    William Sterling Parsons (category Manhattan Project people)
    an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped...
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