Organization
Los Alamos Laboratory
Laboratory in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed.
- Dates
- 1943
- Wikidata
- Q379848
Connections 4
headed by
- J. Robert Oppenheimer Director Primary record 1
people who worked here
- Klaus Fuchs 1944 Primary record 2
part of
- Manhattan Project Primary record 1
located in
- Los Alamos, New Mexico Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1943 Los Alamos Laboratory
- 1944 Klaus Fuchs worked at Los Alamos Laboratory
Proof 2 sources
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Manhattan Project: Los Alamos Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet).
Primary record
Groves named Oppenheimer director.
Acquisition of the 54,000-acre site began immediately.
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Manhattan Project: Klaus Fuchs, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet).
Primary record
Arriving at Los Alamos August 14, 1944, Fuchs worked on problems relating to design of the implosion bomb.
Page history 1 change
- Add the stories of the bomb and the crash of 20087f68c15
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