APPENDIX |
Chronology
EVENT
January 1939
German scientists Hahn and Strassmann
published results of their 1938
experiments with which they discovered
the fission process.
September 1, 1939
Nazi Germany invaded Poland; World War
December 7 & 15, 1941
United States entered war with Japan
and Germany, respectively.
August 13, 1942
Manhattan Engineer District established
to produce nuclear weapons.
December 2, 1942
II began.
Physicists under direction of Enrico
Fermi at the University of Chicago's
Metallurgical Laboratory created the
first controlled, self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction.
March 15, 1943
Weapon laboratory established at Los
July 16, 1945
First atomic bomb, Trinity, detcnatec
at Alamogordo, New Mexico by the
Alamos, New Mexico. Now called ics
Alamos National Laboratory.
Manhattan Engineer District.
August 6, 1945
August 9, 1945
First atomic bomb "Little Boy" cxcrpec
on Hiroshima, Japan.
Second atomic bomb "Fat Man" detcrated
over Nagasaki, Japan.
August 14, 1945
The government of Imperial Japan
accepted the Potsdam Declaration anc
surrendered.
January 26, 1946
The United Nations General Assemsly in
London established the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission.
June 14, 1946
Bernard Baruch, U. S.- delegate to tne
U.N. Atomic Energy Cammission proocsed
a plan to outlaw the manufacture cr
atomic bombs, dismantle those alreacy
existing, and share atomic ener7,
secrets with other nations. (‘Tre Soviet
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