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A) Ames Project B) Ordnance Project C) P-9 Project D) Manhattan Project
A) Uravan B) Port Hope C) Port Radium D) Joachimsthal
A) Diffusion B) Chemical precipitation C) Electrolysis D) Distillation
A) 0.5 short tons B) 1,720 short tons C) 3 short tons D) 1,200 short tons
A) Northern Canada B) Joachimsthal C) Belgian Congo D) Colorado
A) Canada B) Belgian Congo C) Colorado D) Czechoslovakia
A) John Winant B) John Anderson C) Frank Spedding D) Edgar Sengier
A) Hydrochloric acid B) Uranyl nitrate C) Sulfuric acid D) Nitric acid
A) Trail B) Mallinckrodt C) Iowa State College D) Port Radium
A) Nichols B) Groves C) Frank Spedding D) Sir John Anderson
A) US Vanadium Corporation B) Eldorado Gold Mines C) Union Minière du Haut-Katanga D) DuPont
A) Trail, Canada B) Staten Island C) Uravan, Colorado D) Port Hope, Ontario
A) Union Minière B) Mallinckrodt C) DuPont D) Army Corps of Engineers
A) It is turned into plutonium B) It produces uranyl nitrate C) It is distilled D) It is helium cooled
A) Uranium dioxide B) Uranium metal C) Uranium trioxide D) Uranyl nitrate
A) Colonel Marshall B) Robert P. Patterson C) Kenneth Nichols D) Prentice Cooper
A) 56,000 acres B) 3,000 acres C) 13,000 acres D) 82,000 acres
A) Kingston Demolition Range B) Black Oak Ridge Range C) Clinton Engineer Works D) Manhattan Engineer District
A) Stone & Webster B) Roane-Anderson Company C) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill D) Turner Construction Company
A) Kingston Range B) Clinton River C) Black Oak Ridge D) Roane Mountain
A) Cooper B) Groves C) Patterson D) Nichols
A) Roane-Anderson Company B) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill C) Turner Construction Company D) Stone & Webster
A) 20% to 25% B) 10% to 12% C) 90% to 95% D) 5% to 8%
A) 75,000 B) 82,000 C) 10,000 D) 13,000
A) $47 B) $62 C) $35 D) $100
A) August 1943 B) September 1942 C) October 1943 D) March 1945
A) About 75,000 B) About 13,000 C) About 500 D) About 1,000
A) $1.2 million B) $5.6 million C) $3.5 million D) $2.6 million
A) World War I B) The Vietnam War C) The Cold War D) World War II
A) France and Germany B) Australia and New Zealand C) Italy and Japan D) United Kingdom and Canada
A) Albert Einstein B) J. Robert Oppenheimer C) Leslie Groves D) Enrico Fermi
A) Leslie Groves B) Harry Truman C) Franklin D. Roosevelt D) J. Robert Oppenheimer
A) Operation Crossroads B) Manhattan District C) Clinton Engineer Works D) Tube Alloys
A) Scientific salaries B) Transportation of materials C) Security operations D) Building and operating fissile material production plants
A) Hanford Engineer Works B) Clinton Engineer Works C) White Sands Proving Ground D) Los Alamos Laboratory
A) Clinton Engineer Works B) Manhattan C) Hanford Engineer Works D) Bikini Atoll
A) Plutonium gun-type B) Plutonium implosion-type C) Uranium implosion-type D) Enriched uranium gun-type
A) Little Boy B) Fat Man C) Bikini D) Trinity
A) Los Alamos B) White Sands Proving Ground C) Tennessee D) Bikini Atoll
A) United States Atomic Energy Commission B) Nuclear Regulatory Commission C) Department of Energy D) Army Corps of Engineers
A) Enrico Fermi B) Vannevar Bush C) Albert Einstein D) Lyman Briggs
A) Enrico Fermi B) Lyman Briggs C) Vannevar Bush D) Leo Szilard
A) 1941 B) 1940 C) 1938 D) 1939
A) Uranium-235 B) Heavy water C) Graphite D) Plutonium
A) The Navy laboratory B) The basement of the OSRD C) The main library D) Pupin Hall
A) National Defense Research Committee B) The U.S. Navy C) The Uranium Commission D) Office of Scientific Research and Development
A) Enrico Fermi B) Lyman Briggs C) Vannevar Bush D) Leo Szilard
A) October 1939 B) August 1939 C) June 1940 D) February 1941
A) Plutonium-239 B) Uranium-235 C) Uranium-238 D) Graphite-12
A) Mark Oliphant B) Otto Robert Frisch C) Rudolf Peierls D) John Cockcroft
A) John Cockcroft B) Mark Oliphant C) Vannevar Bush D) Ernest O. Lawrence
A) George B. Pegram B) Ernest O. Lawrence C) Arthur H. Compton D) James B. Conant
A) Section S-1 B) Top Policy Group C) MAUD Committee D) Uranium Commission
A) Rudolf Peierls B) Winston Churchill C) John Cockcroft D) Otto Robert Frisch
A) George C. Marshall B) Henry L. Stimson C) Harry S. Truman D) Henry A. Wallace
A) Eger Murphree B) Harold Urey C) Arthur Compton D) Philip Abelson
A) Columbia University B) University of California C) Naval Research Laboratory D) University of Chicago
A) Philip Abelson B) Eger Murphree C) Jesse Wakefield Beams D) Harold Urey
A) Light water B) Graphite C) Heavy water D) Beryllium
A) Arthur Compton B) Harold Urey C) Ernest Lawrence D) Philip Abelson
A) Vannevar Bush B) James Conant C) Wilhelm D. Styer D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
A) 18 December 1941 B) 17 June 1942 C) 1 January 1942 D) 7 December 1941
A) OSRD B) United States Army Corps of Engineers C) Naval Research Laboratory D) Metallurgical Laboratory
A) J. Robert Oppenheimer B) Leslie Groves C) Eugene Reybold D) Arthur Compton
A) Chicago, Illinois B) 270 Broadway, New York C) Knoxville, Tennessee D) Washington, D.C.
A) Westinghouse B) Stone & Webster C) DuPont D) General Electric
A) Pennsylvania B) New York City C) Chicago, Illinois D) Knoxville, Tennessee
A) Gaseous diffusion B) Thermal diffusion C) Centrifuge separation D) Electromagnetic separation
A) AA-1 B) AA-2 C) AAA D) AA-3
A) Health problems B) Scientific disagreements with Oppenheimer C) Concerns over lax operational security D) Disagreements over project funding
A) Arthur Compton B) Edward Teller C) J. Robert Oppenheimer D) Hans Bethe
A) Vannevar Bush B) Henry Stimson C) Harvey Bundy D) Donald Nelson
A) AAA B) AA-1 C) AA-2 D) AA-3
A) 20 July 1943 B) 23 September 1942 C) 1 July 1944 D) October 1942
A) McMahon Act B) Quebec Agreement C) Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire D) Belgian Congo Treaty
A) McMahon Act B) Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire C) Tube Alloys agreement D) Quebec Agreement
A) McMahon Act B) Quebec Agreement C) Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire D) War Production Board Act
A) Helpful but not vital B) Essential for success C) Unnecessary D) Detrimental to progress
A) The abundance of water B) Its existing laboratory facilities C) Its close proximity to a city D) Its natural beauty
A) Patterson B) Claude R. Wickard C) Groves D) Oppenheimer
A) $414,971 B) $300,000 C) $440,000 D) $7 million
A) Site Y or the Hill B) The Ranch or the Lab C) Site A or the Mountain D) Project X or the Base
A) Robert Bacher B) Dorothy McKibbin C) Groves D) Oppenheimer
A) Major Arthur V. Peterson B) Captain James F. Grafton C) Enrico Fermi D) Arthur Compton
A) Iowa State University B) Westinghouse Lamp Plant C) Argonne National Laboratory D) Goodyear Tire
A) A steel container B) A concrete dome C) A large square balloon D) A lead chamber
A) James B. Conant B) Enrico Fermi C) Arthur Compton D) Arthur V. Peterson
A) Site A Reactor B) Chicago Pile-2 C) Chicago Pile-1 D) Chicago Pile-3
A) 15 May 1944 B) 2 December 1942 C) 25 June 1942 D) January 1943
A) Westinghouse B) DuPont C) Manhattan Engineering D) General Electric
A) A military base with no civilians B) An urban industrial hub C) A gated community D) A permanent residential suburb
A) Shell Canada B) Cominco C) Montreal Chemical D) Ontario Hydro
A) Urey B) Hans von Halban C) John Cockcroft D) Bennett Lewis
A) 75.0% B) 50.0% C) 99.8% D) 2.3%
A) John Cockcroft B) Harold Urey C) Hugh Taylor D) Hans von Halban
A) Deep River B) Petawawa C) Trail D) Ottawa
A) Camp Petawawa B) Camp Gagetown C) Camp Borden D) Camp Wainwright
A) Zero-energy experimental pile B) Zero emission experimental plant C) Zinc enriched experimental pile D) Zonal energy electricity project
A) Hugh Taylor B) Bennett Lewis C) Hans von Halban D) Harold Urey
A) Ottawa River B) Columbia River C) Niagara River D) St. Lawrence River |