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Alsos Mission(
nominated by
Hawkeye7) Part of the
Manhattan Project, the effort during
World War II by the
Allies, principally Britain and the United States, to create an
atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was also charged with coordinating foreign intelligence related to enemy nuclear activity, and the Alsos Mission was an effort to find out what the German research programs had discovered, and prevent the research from getting to the Russians.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 25 to 31 August 2014. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
Alsos Mission(
nominated by
Hawkeye7) Part of the
Manhattan Project, the effort during
World War II by the
Allies, principally Britain and the United States, to create an
atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was also charged with coordinating foreign intelligence related to enemy nuclear activity, and the Alsos Mission was an effort to find out what the German research programs had discovered, and prevent the research from getting to the Russians.
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