Project Y

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World War II project research project secret codename

Project Y was the secret codename for the Los Alamos Laboratory, the central research site of the Manhattan Project where the first atomic bombs were designed and built during World War II.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II project → research project → secret codename →
associatedTechnology	gun-type nuclear weapon → implosion-type nuclear weapon → plutonium bomb design → uranium bomb design →
codenameFor	Los Alamos Laboratory →
country	United States →
director	J. Robert Oppenheimer →
employer	United States Army Corps of Engineers →
endYear	1945 →
field	nuclear physics → weapons engineering →
focus	experimental physics research → nuclear weapons development → ordnance engineering → theoretical physics research →
governedBy	United States government →
historicalImpact	contribution to end of World War II → development of first nuclear weapons →
involvedScientist	Edward Teller → Emilio Segrè → Enrico Fermi → George Kistiakowsky → Hans Bethe → John von Neumann → Klaus Fuchs → Niels Bohr → Richard Feynman → Seth Neddermeyer → Stanislaw Ulam →
location	Los Alamos, New Mexico →
militaryDirector	Leslie R. Groves Jr. →
notableEvent	Trinity nuclear test →
notableProject	Fat Man → Little Boy →
operatedBy	University of California →
partOf	Manhattan Project →
purpose	construction of atomic bombs → design of atomic bombs →
relatedProgram	Project Alberta →
relatedSite	Hanford Site → Oak Ridge →
securityClassification	Top Secret →
startYear	1943 →
successor	Los Alamos National Laboratory →
timePeriod	World War II →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Los Alamos Laboratory →	codeName
Los Alamos Ranch School →	laterSiteOf