29 Dez 1941 Jahr - the start of the Manhattan project

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The US response was The Manhattan Project. Led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the program began researching ways to build a fission bomb using the elements uranium and plutonium.
Fear of the rival Nazi project spurred the US government on. With huge financial backing, it took just three years for Oppenheimer and his team to successfully test their first nuclear weapon. The first "live fire" nuclear weapon hit Hiroshima three weeks later.
Farm Hall recordings
"I don't believe a word of the whole thing," said Werner Heisenberg, then-head of the German nuclear research program, when he heard the news about Hiroshima. At the time, Heisenberg and the nine other senior nuclear physicists working on the German project were incarcerated in an English estate called Farm Hall. The British secretly recorded the scientists, hoping to discover secrets of the Nazi nuclear projects.
The other German physicists shared his incredulity. Most believed it was a bluff to induce a Japanese surrender. "I didn't think it would be possible for another twenty years," Otto Hahn had said.

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