The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project was a United States military agency responsible for those aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control after the Manhattan Project was succeeded
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Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr. (1947–1948)
Major General Kenneth D. Nichols (1948–1951)
Major General Herbert B. Loper (1952–1953)
Kenneth Nichols
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Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as D
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…delivering in 1949 was a production design that was much easier to assemble and maintain, and enabled a bomb-assembly team to be reduced to just 46 men. Kenneth D. Nichols, the wartime commander of the Manhattan District, now "recommended that we should be thinking in terms of thousands of weapons rather than hundreds…
Nichols at his desk in 1945
Argonne National Laboratory established in 1946, in DuPage County, Illinois
Y-12 National Security Complex established 1943 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Aerial view of the Able mushroom cloud rising from the lagoon with the Bikini Island visible in the background