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Parent topics
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [r]: A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory located in Los Alamos, New Mexico and originally the development and construction center of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project for use by the United States of America in World War II. [e]
- World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
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- J. Robert Oppenheimer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Enrico Fermi [r]: (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor. [e]
- George Kistiakowsky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leslie Groves [r]: Major general, U.S. Army, commanding the Manhattan Project [e]
- Fat Man [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Little Boy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carson Mark [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Los Alamos, New Mexico [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trinity test [r]: Add brief definition or description
- B-29 [r]: Very heavy bomber, by Second World War standards, that carried out U.S. strategic bombing against Japan [e]
- Fission device [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TNT equivalent [r]: A unit of energy commonly used to quantify the energy released (or "yielded") in explosions. [e]
- Hiroshima (city) [r]: Japanese city; capital of Hiroshima prefecture in the Chugoku region of Honshu island. [e]
- Nagasaki (city) [r]: Capital city of Nagasaki prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu. [e]
- Harry S. Truman [r]: (1884-1972) President of the U.S. from 1945 to 1953. [e]
- Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
- Plutonium [r]: Mainly man-made radioactive element (Z = 94); its 239 isotope is fissionable and used in nuclear weapons; the 240 isotope is used in some nuclear power reactors [e]
- Uranium [r]: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
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