Project Alberta
| Project Alberta | |
|---|---|
 Foto kelompok Project Alberta di Tinian | |
| Aktif | March – September 1945 |
| Negara |  Amerika Serikat Britania Raya |
| Cabang | Army Corps of Engineers |
| Peralatan | Little Boy, Fat Man, dan bom labu |
| Pertempuran | |
| Tokoh | |
| Tokoh berjasa | William S. Parsons |
Project Alberta, juga dikenal sebagai Project A, adalah sebuah bagian dari Proyek Manhattan yang membantu pengiriman senjata-senjata nuklir pertama dalam serangan bom atom Hiroshima dan Nagasaki pada Perang Dunia II.
Project Alberta dibentuk pada Maret 1945, dan terdiri dari 51 personil sipil, AL dan AD Amerika Serikat, termasuk satu ilmuwan Inggris.
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Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]
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- Hawkins, David (1946). Project Y: The Los Alamos Project Inception through August 1945 (PDF). Manhattan District History. Los Alamos, New Mexico: Los Alamos National Laboratory. Diakses tanggal 11 August 2011.
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- Lewis, Robert A.; Tolzer, Eliot (August 1957). "How We Dropped the A-Bomb". Popular Science. hlm. 71–75, 209–210.
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- Russ, Harlow W. (1990). Project Alberta: The Preparation of Atomic Bombs For Use in World War II. Los Alamos, New Mexico: Exceptional Books. ISBN 978-0-944482-01-8. OCLC 24429257.
Pranala luar[sunting | sunting sumber]
- Video footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent) di YouTube
- "Instructions to CG XXI Bomber Command regarding 'Project A'" (PDF). National Archives. 9 May 1945. Diakses tanggal 8 March 2014.
