The Manhattan Project
Explore The Manhattan Project on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki (1945)
- First fission chain reaction (Chicago Pile-1) (1942)
- 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)
- Oak Ridge and Hanford: the secret cities (1943)
- Potsdam Conference (1945)
- The Szilárd petition (1945)
- Hahn and Meitner discover nuclear fission (1938)
- Bikini Atoll nuclear tests (1946)
- Presidency of Harry S. Truman (1945)