Twenty-two thousand British service personnel were stationed in the South Pacific when Britain tested its first atomic bomb on October 3, 1952. Many were teenagers on national service, promised a ...
eventually leading to the Manhattan Project and the development of the world's first atomic bomb. Though Einstein didn't write the letter, his worldwide esteem meant his signature added ...
Although his parents were first- and second-generation German immigrants ... the top-secret development of an American atomic bomb — at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.