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Jun 5, 2021 · In the race to end WWII, the brightest American minds are called to work on the Manhattan Project, including a number of unsung Black scientists and engineer...
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Oct 22, 2024 · Dive deep into one of the most pivotal scientific endeavors in history — the Manhattan Project. This video uncovers the secretive and groundbreaking researc...
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Jan 23, 2021 · Now, at the US National Lab where I work, an experienced PhD will be paid somewhere around ~30 times the $4800/yr, or Oppenheimer's salary would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $300k/yr (plus/minus $100k?). As a separate comparison, per Business Insider, a US Army private was paid $50/month during the war. A technician at Los Alamos made up ...
The Manhattan Project Explained! In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into one of the most secretive and groundbreaking projects in history: the Manhattan P...
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The project officially lasted from 1942 to 1946, although government-approved research into nuclear weapons began in 1939 after a series of major breakthroughs in nuclear science in the 1930s.
Jul 15, 2020 · For the elite scientists, engineers and military brass of the Army’s remote nuclear weapons facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the night of July 15–16, 1945, was one of excruciating tension.
TIL In 1945 the director of the Los Alamos Lab during the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, bet ten dollars against a colleague's entire month's pay that the bomb would not work at all. The actual result was 21 kilotons, more than 4 times as much as had been predicted by most at Los Alamos.
