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Vivimany, they worked at los alamos, UC Berkeley, Chicago, hanford, oak ridge, New York City, wendover; it was the highest priority war project and identifying yourself with its secret priority code word "silverplate" got you anything instantly even if many others doing other things had been waiting weeks for the same thing because of shortages.
Richard Feynman even got a General that had already boarded a train kicked off so he could get to a meeting on time using "silverplate". The General's priority was not as high as "silverplate".
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Who is responsible of making a nuclear or atomic bomb?
the US army headed a secret team of scientists called the Manhattan project - they did the science, developed the ideas and worked with engineers to make the first atomic bomb on 1944-1945.
Who were scientist who worked on the hiroshima bomb?
Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists.
Where did Leo Szilard invent the atomic bomb?
Crossing Southampton Road in London while taking a walk on September 12, 1933.
A top secret program to build an atomic bomb during World War 2?
The top secret program to build an atomic bomb was called the Manhattan Project. It was so secret the top Generals and Admirals did not know about it. The people who worked on the project often did not know what they were working on. All the workers lived in places that were developed from the ground up and they could not talk about what they were doing. Even Vice President Truman did not know about it until after President Roosevelt died.
Who were all the people who worked on the atomic bomb?
Robert R. Wilson, Lise Meitner, and Otto R. Frisch America's Manhattan project was headed by J Robert Openheimer. His principle assistants were Hans Bethe, Victor Weisskopf, Earnest Lawrance and Enrico Fermi.
