Manhattan Project
1942–1947 · Event
Secret programme, led by the United States with British and Canadian participation, that built the first atomic bombs; the Manhattan District is formed in August 1942 and hands over to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission on 1 January 1947.
On these timelines: The Manhattan Project, Science & Technology, Master, USA, World War II
More from The Manhattan Project
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Einstein-Szilard letter (1939)
- Los Alamos Laboratory established (1943)
- Roosevelt authorises the atomic bomb (1942)
- The Interim Committee recommends use (1945)
- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
- The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible (1941)
- Truman tells Stalin of a 'new weapon' (1945)
Around 1942
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)