Article abstract: The United States develops the world’s first nuclear weapon.
Summary of Event
The building by the United States of an atomic bomb was not the result of a single decision, but of a series of decisions taken over more than two years. Although President Franklin D. Roosevelt held the ultimate responsibility, his attitudes were shaped by scientific advisers whose reasoned conclusions and best guesses persuaded him that it was possible to construct a nuclear fission device “of superlatively destructive powers,” as a 1941 report termed...
Source: Great Events from History: North American Series, ©1997 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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