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Post by beth on Jul 13, 2010 18:35:27 GMT -5
February 18: Construction begins for Y-12 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a massive electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium.
April 5–14: Introductory lectures began at Los Alamos, later are compiled into The Los Alamos Primer.
April 20: The University of California becomes the formal business manager of the Los Alamos laboratory.
August 19: Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sign Quebec Agreement. Team of British scientists join project as a result, including Klaus Fuchs
October 4: Construction begins for the first reactor at Hanford Site. October: Project W-47, later called Project Alberta set up to plan delivery of the bomb
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