Manhattan Project people, places, and things

Can you name the people, places, and things having to do with the Manhattan Project?

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Chief Scientist in the Manhattan Project
General in charge of the Manhattan Project
Hungarian physicist who first concieved the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction
Italian phycist who created the world's first atomic pile
The German physicist who, along with Rudolf Peierls, wrote a famous 1940 memorandum describing how to build an atomic bomb
The German physicist who co-authored a letter to President Roosevelt urging him to start the project
The Hungarian mathematician who designed the explosive lenses used in the bombs
The Hungarian theoretical physicist who calculated the critical mass and devised the imposion mechanism
The Hungarian theoretical physicist who was later the 'father' of the hydrogen bomb
The mischievous American theoretical physicist who created a formula for measuring the yield of the bomb
The UC Berkeley chemist who created the process for mass production of plutonium
The government official, creator of the NDRC and OSRD, who sponsored the project
This physicist, who won the 1931 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the neutron, was head of the british delegation to the Manhattan Project
Unlike the Germans, who used heavy water, the Manhattan Project used this material as a nuclear moderator
The US government organization charged with developing the atomic bomb
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Most of the bomb design work occured at a laboratory in this city in New Mexico
This other New Mexico city was the original first choice to house bomb design laboratory
Weapons grade uranium was manufactured at Y-12 in this city in Tennessee
Weapons grade plutonium was manufactured in this city in Washington state
The code name for the first atomic bomb test, on July 16, 1945
The first atomic bomb test took place in White Sands near this New Mexico city
Harry Truman was at this conference when he heard of the successful atom bomb test
This ancient capital of Japan was at the top of the target list, but was removed at the insistence of Henry Stimson
The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The pilot of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki
The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
This German-born British physicist was later convicted of giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
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