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The document discusses Project Paperclip, a secret U.S. program during the Cold War that brought over 1,600 German scientists, including Wernher von Braun, to America to work on initiatives like the space program. It recruited scientists to preserve and develop German weapons research on biological and chemical agents. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American effort during World War II to develop the first atomic bombs, which were successfully tested in New Mexico in 1945 and then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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Research Projekt Jsihsjs

The document discusses Project Paperclip, a secret U.S. program during the Cold War that brought over 1,600 German scientists, including Wernher von Braun, to America to work on initiatives like the space program. It recruited scientists to preserve and develop German weapons research on biological and chemical agents. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American effort during World War II to develop the first atomic bombs, which were successfully tested in New Mexico in 1945 and then dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

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This controversial top-secret U.S. intelligence program
brought Nazi German scientists to America to
harness their brain power for Cold War initiatives

used the Osenberg List to compile his list of German scientists to be captured and interrogated; Wernher von Braun,
Germany's premier rocket scientist, headed Major Staver's list.[17]

1,600

to harness their brain power for Cold War initiatives.

forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters.

Wernher von Braun

to find and preserve German weapons, including biological and chemical agents
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the
American-led effort to develop a functional atomic
weapon during World War II.

first formed in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after U.S. intelligence operatives reported that scientists
working for Adolf Hitler were already working on a nuclear weapon.

On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was
successfully detonated—the Trinity Test—creating an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 feet high
and ushering in the Atomic Age.

With no surrender agreement in place, on August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay bomber plane
dropped the as-yet untested “Little Boy” bomb some 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, causing
unprecedented destruction and death over an area of five square miles

formed the Atomic Energy Commission to oversee research efforts designed to apply the technologies
developed under the Manhattan Project to other fields.

Atomic Energy Commission

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