Manhattan project

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Manhattan Project, US atomicManhattan Project, US atomic weapons programme, is ready to test-fire first ever nuclear bomb, nicknamed "The Gadget", in New Mexico desert.

Photographer Martin Miller traveled to two nuclear-explosives production facilities, now stark and mostly abandoned, where America's top scientists developed the world's first atomic bomb during World War II.

What was the Manhattan Project?

Two thousand miles away from the U.S. A-bomb tests in 1945, something weird was happening to Kodak's film.

Operation Castle was a series of high yield thermonuclear weapon design tests. The original schedule included a weaponized version of the cryogenic fuel system used in Sausage designated the TX/EC-16, the test device being named JUGHEAD. Experiment: Yankee Device: JUGHEAD Prototype: TX/EC-16 Fuel: Cryo H-3 (wet) Date: March 22, 1954 Revised Date: April 27, 1954 Predicted Yield: 8 Mt Revised Yield: 9.5 Mt Manufacturer: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Test Location: Barge off Iroij, Bikini

Nagasaki atomic cloud, from distance of 15km. Colorized photo.

John von Neumann has revolutionized the world of computing through his work on the Manhattan Project, the von Neumann (Princeton) Architecture, and the first IAS computer.

By some estimates, over 600,000 people worked on the Manhattan Project. Workers joined the project for very different reasons. The vast majority of the Manhattan Project workers were not aware of what it was trying to accomplish. It was only project officials and top scientists who were aware of the…

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