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Do you have a source on that? I'm finding "The Manhattan Project: the Important Role Silver Played In the Building of the Atomic Bomb" <https://discover.hubpag
by dredmorbius 2y ago
Do you have a source on that?
I'm finding "The Manhattan Project: the Important Role Silver Played In the Building of the Atomic Bomb" <https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Manhattan-Project-and-The-Borrowed-Silver https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Manhattan-Projec...> (2015).
- 00N8 2y agoI think I first heard about it in a Scott Manley video - maybe this one, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNT28WKAxgs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNT28WKAxgs - & read more on Wikipedia & possibly elsewhere
- glompers 2y agoHere's a more official source: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1944_ur/y-12_construction.htm https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Event... Groves' deputy, Nichols, who was responsible for the loan, also told the story in more detail in 1987 memoir, "The Road to Trinity."
- glompers 2y agoDirectly related to recapture of gold -- and related to the Manhattan Project by Farm Hall [0] too -- is the tale of German objector Max von Laue's Nobel Prize medal, which was dissolved during WWII and recast out of solution afterward [1] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Post-war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Post-war [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Hidden_Nobel_prize https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Hidden_Nobel_pr...
- dredmorbius 2y agoThanks!