Allied nuclear weapons project

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Allied_nuclear_weapons_project

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:military
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:codename	gptkb:Manhattan_Engineer_District
gptkbp:endDate	1946
gptkbp:espionageIncident	gptkb:Rosenberg_espionage_case Klaus Fuchs espionage
gptkbp:firstTestMatch	July 16, 1945
gptkbp:fundedBy	over $2 billion (1940s USD)
gptkbp:goal	develop atomic bomb
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Allied nuclear weapons project
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Einstein–Szilard_letter
gptkbp:involvedCountry	gptkb:Canada gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:legacy	proliferation of nuclear weapons start of the nuclear age
gptkbp:notableChemist	gptkb:Ernest_Lawrence gptkb:Glenn_T._Seaborg gptkb:Harold_Urey
gptkbp:notableContributor	nuclear chain reaction plutonium production uranium enrichment radiation effects research critical mass calculation detonation mechanism gun-type bomb design implosion-type bomb design
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Trinity_test
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:General_Leslie_Groves gptkb:J._Robert_Oppenheimer
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Edward_Teller gptkb:Enrico_Fermi gptkb:Hans_Bethe gptkb:John_von_Neumann gptkb:Klaus_Fuchs gptkb:Leo_Szilard gptkb:Niels_Bohr gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkbp:notableSite	gptkb:Hanford_Site gptkb:Los_Alamos_Laboratory gptkb:Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory
gptkbp:oversightAgency	gptkb:U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers
gptkbp:producedWeapon	gptkb:Fat_Man gptkb:Little_Boy
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Alsos_Mission gptkb:Tube_Alloys gptkb:Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
gptkbp:resultedIn	gptkb:atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
gptkbp:startDate	1942
gptkbp:testLocation	gptkb:Alamogordo,_New_Mexico
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Heavy_water_sabotage
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7