April 1943
Theoretical Division Leadership
Bethe is selected to head the Los Alamos Theoretical Division, which develops calculations needed for fission-weapon design.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Los Alamos in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Bethe is selected to head the Los Alamos Theoretical Division, which develops calculations needed for fission-weapon design.
The Initiator Committee selects the Urchin concept as the most promising neutron initiator for the implosion weapon.
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