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Manhattan Project Resignation

Poland · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1944

Joseph Rotblat8 December 1944

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Rotblat leaves the Manhattan Project after concluding that Germany is no longer developing an atomic bomb threat requiring his participation.

Names involved

Joseph Rotblat

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