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Post by beth on Jul 7, 2010 19:08:25 GMT -5
1940
March: Otto Frisch and Rudolph Peierls author the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, calculating that an atomic bomb might need as little as 1 lb of enriched uranium to work.
April 10: MAUD Committee (Military Application of Uranium Detonation) established by Henry Tizard to investigate feasibility of an atomic bomb
July 1: Responsibility for fission research is taken over by Vannevar Bush's National Defense Research Committee.
December: Franz Simon reports to MAUD that uranium-235 can be separated using gaseous diffusion. Gives cost estimates and technical specifications. James Chadwick realizes "a nuclear bomb...is inevitable"
March: Otto Frisch and Rudolph Peierls author the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, calculating that an atomic bomb might need as little as 1 lb of enriched uranium to work.
April 10: MAUD Committee (Military Application of Uranium Detonation) established by Henry Tizard to investigate feasibility of an atomic bomb
July 1: Responsibility for fission research is taken over by Vannevar Bush's National Defense Research Committee.
December: Franz Simon reports to MAUD that uranium-235 can be separated using gaseous diffusion. Gives cost estimates and technical specifications. James Chadwick realizes "a nuclear bomb...is inevitable"