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Post by lemmingtopias on Sept 23, 2018 7:43:11 GMT
On this day, 1942, the Manhattan Project commenced, under the direction of MajorGeneral Leslie Groves, while Robert Oppenheimer directed the labaratory that made the bombs at Los Alamos. The project would last five years, eventually being taken over by the US Atomic Energy Commission. The most contraversial event during the Manhattan Project would be the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing anywhere up to 226,000 people.
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Post by lemmingtopias on Sept 24, 2018 9:01:12 GMT
On this day, 1950, Operation 'Magic Carpet' saw the Jews of Yemen move to Israel.
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