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Timeline of the Manhattan Project: Media

What led to the creation of the atomic bomb?

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J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie R. Groves
At the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, J. Robert Oppenheimer (left)...
Courtesy of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

Interactives

Timeline of the Manhattan Project
Interactive timeline of key dates in the Manhattan Project.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Patrick O'Neill Riley