From Manhattan to Hiroshima: the race for the atom bomb
An April 1945 file photo from The National Archives shows US Marines passing through a small village in Okinawa, Japan, where Japanese soldiers lie dead/ An April 1945 file photo from The National Archives shows US Marines passing through a small village in Okinawa, Japan, where Japanese soldiers lie dead (AFP Photo/Norris G. Mcelroy)/ The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki capped six years of top-secret work by scientists from Europe and North America. Here is an overview of how that process unfolded. In 1939, Albert Einstein signs ...
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