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1942
September
04
Groves takes over the Manhattan Project
In September 1942 Colonel Leslie Groves took charge of the US atomic programme. Within days he secured uranium, a site in Tennessee and top priority.
1945
July
16
Key event
The Trinity test
At 5.29 a.m. on 16 July 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico, the Americans detonated the “Gadget” – the first nuclear device in history.