"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Karl Johanson <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Some think of the atomic bombings as solely American efforts. While
>> the US put most of the effort into the production and delivery of the
>> nuclear weapons, Canada and Britain participated in their creation.
>
> How so? The construction and testing took place at Los Alamos, Oak
> Ridge, Hanford, and Alamogordo, all of which are in the US. I believe
> all the people directly involved were US citizens, though some
> had been born elsewhere. The bombs were delivered by the USS
> Indianapolis, an American ****p, and two B29s, American planes.
I don't know all the details.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first nuclear
weapon (atomic bomb) during World War II by the United States, the
United Kingdom, and Canada. Formally designated as the Manhattan
Engineer District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the
project from 1941-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves. The
scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert
Oppenheimer.
The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons
in 1945: a test detonation of a plutonium implosion bomb on July 16 (the
Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb
code-named "Little Boy" on August 6 over Hiro****ma, Japan; and a second
plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.
The project's roots lay in scientists' fears since the 1930s that Nazi
Germany was also investigating nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a
small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually
employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion USD ($23
billion in 2007 dollars based on CPI). It resulted in the creation of
multiple production and research sites that operated in secret.[1]
The three primary research and production sites of the project were the
plutonium-production facility at what is now the Hanford Site, the
uranium-enrichment facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the weapons
research and design laboratory, now known as Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Project research took place at over thirty different sites
across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
> If I recall correctly, no other government was even aware of the
> nuclear program until after Hiro****ma.
Truman informed Stalin about the nuclear weapons, before they were used.
Stalin already new, according to some.
>Britain did have its own program, but not much came of it.
> The bombs were of course based on earlier discoveries, many of which
> were made in other countries, especially Germany.
Karl Johanson
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