The MAUD Report says the bomb is feasible
1941 · Event
A British committee concludes that a uranium bomb using about 11 kg (25 lb) of active material is feasible and could be ready by the end of 1943; the report helps push the American programme into a full effort.
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- Truman is told about the bomb (1945)
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- 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)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)