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Post by beth on Jul 10, 2010 23:17:34 GMT -5
July–September: Physicist Robert Oppenheimer convenes a summer conference at the University of California, Berkeley to discuss the design of a fission bomb. Edward Teller brings up the possibility of a hydrogen bomb as a major point of discussion.
August: Creation of the Manhattan Engineering District by the Army Corps of Engineers.
September 13: At a meeting of the S-1 Executive Committee, it is decided that a centralized laboratory should be established to study fast neutrons, code-named "Project Y".
September 17: Col. Leslie Groves is assigned command of the Manhattan Engineering District. Six days later he is appointed to Brigadier General.
September 24: After a visit to Tennessee, Groves purchases 52,000 acres (210 km²) of land in Tennessee for "Site X", which will become the Oak Ridge, Tennessee laboratory and production site.
September 26: The Manhattan Project is given permission to use the highest wartime priority rating by the War Production Board.
October 15: Groves appoints Robert Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the project at the "Site Y" laboratory.
November 16: Groves and Oppenheimer visit Los Alamos, New Mexico and designate it as the location for "Site Y".
December 2: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi.
August: Creation of the Manhattan Engineering District by the Army Corps of Engineers.
September 13: At a meeting of the S-1 Executive Committee, it is decided that a centralized laboratory should be established to study fast neutrons, code-named "Project Y".
September 17: Col. Leslie Groves is assigned command of the Manhattan Engineering District. Six days later he is appointed to Brigadier General.
September 24: After a visit to Tennessee, Groves purchases 52,000 acres (210 km²) of land in Tennessee for "Site X", which will become the Oak Ridge, Tennessee laboratory and production site.
September 26: The Manhattan Project is given permission to use the highest wartime priority rating by the War Production Board.
October 15: Groves appoints Robert Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the project at the "Site Y" laboratory.
November 16: Groves and Oppenheimer visit Los Alamos, New Mexico and designate it as the location for "Site Y".
December 2: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi.