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Final Plutonium Bomb Design Meeting

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Robert Oppenheimer28 February 1945

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

A senior design meeting fixes the plutonium bomb approach around a solid core, explosive lenses, electric detonators and a modulated neutron initiator.

Names involved

Robert Oppenheimer

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