The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II. Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs. Robert Oppenheimer was its first director, serving from 1943 to December 1945.
About Project Y in brief
The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II. Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs. Robert Oppenheimer was its first director, serving from 1943 to December 1945, when he was succeeded by Norris Bradbury. The laboratory built the Water Boiler, an aqueous homogeneous reactor that was the third reactor in the world to become operational. It also researched the Super, a hydrogen bomb that would use a fission bomb to ignite a nuclear fusion reaction in deuterium and tritium. Project Y personnel formed pit crews and assembly teams for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and participated in the bombing as weaponeers and observers. After the war ended, the laboratory supported the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. A new Z Division was created to control testing, stockpiling and bomb assembly activities, which were concentrated at Sandia Base. The Los Alamo Scientific Laboratory was established in 1947. It is located in a remote part of New Mexico and is now home to the Alamos National Security Center, a nuclear weapons research facility. It was the first U.S. facility to develop a nuclear weapon that could be used for research and development. The lab was also the first to produce a working prototype of an atomic bomb. The Fat Man design was tested in the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, and the Super bomb was developed using uranium-235.
It has been the subject of a number of films, including The Godfather, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Second World War: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, starring Tom Hanks, Dean Obeidallah, Robert Redfearn, Dean Acheson, Richard Beale, Dean Sutter, David Gergen and others. The film is based on a novel novel written by Bechtolsheim, published by The New York Review of Books, with a screenplay written by John Sutter. The book was published by Simon & Schuster, who also co-wrote the novel The Great Dictatorship of the Sun and the Great Fire of the Earth, which was released in 1973. The novel was about the development of the atomic bomb in the 1930s and 1940s. The movie was based on the novel by Beethoven, who wrote about the discovery of nuclear fission and its effects on the environment. The first atomic bomb was built in the 1940s and 1950s by the United States and the Soviet Union. The Manhattan Project began in the late 1930s with the aim of developing a weapon that would be able to destroy targets with a single shot of conventional ammunition. In 1941, the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Warfare (CSSAW) created the MAUD Committee to investigate the theoretical issues involved in developing, producing and using atomic bombs, which led to the creation of Tube Alloys. In late August 1941, CSSAW sent a report to the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenady, New York.
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