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Los Alamos: Beginning of an era
This is the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. It is the story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and its successful secret mission to create the first atomic bomb, the weapon that ended World War II.
- Los Alamos: Starting Point
(1.4 Mb pdf) - Living At Los Alamos (2.9 Mb pdf)
- Designing the Bomb & Preparing the Materials (1.6 Mb pdf)
- Trial Run May 7,1945 & Countdown (1.9 Mb pdf)
- Trinity (1.9 Mb pdf)
After Otto Hahn's and Fritz Strassman's discovery [nuclear fission] it became evident that sooner or later some country would make an atom bomb
-Joseph O. Hirschfelder, chemist
