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The presentation documented the technical approach of the team and summary of the results with sufficient detail to demonstrate both the value and the completion of the milestone. A separate SAND report was also generated with more detail to supplement the presentation.
They witnessed the moment the world changed forever. A few hundred scientists, engineers and soldiers gathered in the New Mexico desert during the early morning hours of July 16, 1945. It was the culmination of years of work at a secret lab in Los Alamos led by J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The Manhattan Project was established in August 1942. Its mission: beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. Los Alamos was selected as the site for the weapons design laboratory. J. Robert Oppenheimer served as the Laboratory’s director. In early summer 1944, Los Alamos scientists discovered plutonium would not work in a gun assembly. Thus, Oppenheimer reorganized the Laboratory to build an implosion bomb
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