Norris Bradbury and Edward Teller: A Fission-Fusion Reaction
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
On a bright, sunny day in October 1945, a boisterous and jubilant crowd assembled in front of Fuller Lodge to watch as the Army-Navy “E” Award, a prestigious national honor given for “Excellence in Production” during World War II, was presented to the Los Alamos Laboratory. Major General Leslie Groves, the commanding officer of the Manhattan Project; Navy Commodore William S. (Deak) Parsons, the wartime leader of the Laboratory’s Ordnance Division; Robert Sproul, the President of the University of California; and J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the award on behalf of the Laboratory.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1422914
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-21047; TRN: US1900041
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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