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Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1768462· OSTI ID:1768462
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1768462
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--21-22106
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English