The Hiroshima Project:Guided Tour:Events:USA:The Manhattan Project:Los Alamos
The Berkeley summer study.
Why was Los Alamos needed?
Groves takes command. "We are in the soup!"
Groves, scientists disagree over selection of director. Scientific nature of work needed.
Search for laboratory' site targets West.
Oppenheimer's better idea. Ranch School becomes arsenal of democracy.
"The Italian navigator has just landed in the New World". Secret race won with Chicago's chain reaction.
The Ranch School Closes Down.
Ranch School closes, "Buck Rogers Project" begins.
"Military Laboratory" evolves into academic outpost.
Oppenheimer and his staff arrive. The stakes were high and time was short.
New laboratory forged "the army way".
New weapons laboratory gives birth to the "gadget".
UC's first contract to operate the Laboratory.
Oversight Committee formed as Lab begins research.
"Here's your damned organization Chart".
Plutonium complicates early gun work
Emilio Segre' leads the research on spontaneous fission.
Experimenting with tanks and barns.
Implosion becomes the key to the "gadget".
Evolving from calculators to computers.
Scientists in uniform - the Special Engineering Detachment.
Trinity - Completion of the wartime mission.
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