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    The FrischPeierls memorandum was the first technical exposition of a practical nuclear weapon. It was written by expatriate German-Jewish physicists...
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    Canada. In February and March 1940, Peierls and Frisch co-authored the FrischPeierls memorandum, which Peierls typed. This short paper was the first...
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    was founded in response to the FrischPeierls memorandum, which was written in March 1940 by Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch, two physicists who were refugees...
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    With war on his mind, he and the physicist Rudolf Peierls produced the FrischPeierls memorandum at the University of Birmingham, which was the first...
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    the war. At the University of Birmingham, Rudolf Peierls and Otto Robert Frisch co-wrote a memorandum explaining that a small mass of pure uranium-235...
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    explode with the power of thousands of tons of dynamite. The FrischPeierls memorandum prompted Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube...
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    1992, pp. 3–5. Gowing 1964, pp. 39–41. Peierls, Rudolf; Frisch, Otto (March 1940). Frisch-Peierls Memorandum, March 1940. atomicarchive.com (Report)...
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    of thousands of tons of dynamite. Oliphant took the resulting FrischPeierls memorandum to Sir Henry Tizard, the chairman of the Tizard Committee, and...
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    of the concept of the nuclear chain reaction, leading to the FrischPeierls memorandum, which kick-started the development of nuclear energy through...
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    the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941. The FrischPeierls memorandum and the British Maud Reports eventually prompted Roosevelt to...
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