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Invention of Atomic Bomb

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill16 July 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

With Allied leaders in Potsdam when he hears news of the succesful test explosion. Sees the atomic bomb as a means of delivering peace to the world

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

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