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1940 Princeton University rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Novaya Zemlya NPL, see National Physical Laboratory nuclear pulse propulsion nuclear weapons, prf.1, 1.1, 4.1, 10.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2 ●●

1940 Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners of war ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff highlights Stalin's systematic execution of 15,000 Polish nationalists captured as prisoners of war from the 1939 invasion. ●●

1940 Event of 1940 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One of the most battered nations, Japan, grew by two and a half million people between 1940 and 1945 ●●

1940 On 24 March, General Thomas noted the follow- ing conversation with Fritz Todt: ‘Fuehrer has again e rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 24 March, General Thomas noted the follow- ing conversation with Fritz Todt: ‘Fuehrer has again emphasized ener- getically that everything is to be done so that the war can be ended in 1940 with a great military victory. ●●

1940 As Keitel put it to Thomas in January 1940: ‘The main thing is that one has the impression that the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Keitel put it to Thomas in January 1940: ‘The main thing is that one has the impression that the ammunition programme has now started up on a large scale and one would then have to consider in the summer whether, given our raw material situation, ●●

1940 Todt appointed to head Ministry for Ammunition ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And it was Todt who was duly appointed by Hitler on 17 March 1940 to head a new Ministry for Ammunition. ●●

1940 Todt Ministry creates gun and artillery committee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Finally, in Novem- ber 1940 the Todt Ministry established a national committee to oversee the production of guns and artillery, headed Para enough by ‘Cannon Mueller’ from Krupp. ●●

1940 Then, from the first months of 1940 onwards, as rationing began to bite and the shelves of the Germa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, from the first months of 1940 onwards, as rationing began to bite and the shelves of the German shops emptied, the accounts of the savings banks swelled with a completely unprecedented volume of deposits. ●●

1940 It was not finally adopted until February 1940, by which time the great ammunition drive was already rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was not finally adopted until February 1940, by which time the great ammunition drive was already in full swing. ●●

1940 367 Ink Victory in the West — Sieg im Westen At 5.35 on the morning of 10 May 1940, after months of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 367 Ink Victory in the West — Sieg im Westen At 5.35 on the morning of 10 May 1940, after months of ‘phoney war’, the Western front roared into life.’ Thousands of German guns began drubbing the opposing French, Dutch and Belgian positions. ●●

1940 The German army that invaded France in May 1940 was far from being a carefully honed weapon of moder rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The German army that invaded France in May 1940 was far from being a carefully honed weapon of modern armoured warfare.’ Of Germany’s 93 combat-ready divisions on 10 May 1940, only 9 were Panzer divisions, with a total of 2,439 tanks between them. ●●

1940 Though Germany’s overall tank strength in May 1940 was certainly not overwhelming, matters would hav rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Though Germany’s overall tank strength in May 1940 was certainly not overwhelming, matters would have been far worse but for the tank production drive that began in the autumn of 1939. ●●

1940 Germany signs arms-for-oil deal with Romania ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1940, the German Foreign Office began the process of rolling back Anglo-French domi- nance in the Ploesti oilfield, by concluding an unprecedented arms-for- oil deal.** Romania guaranteed Germany an increased supply of oil at preferential pr ●●

1940 How- ever, the value of goods seized by the victorious Wehrmacht was clearly enormous.*' A French en rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How- ever, the value of goods seized by the victorious Wehrmacht was clearly enormous.*' A French enumeration of goods taken by the Germans between 1940 and 1944 came to no less than 154 billion francs or 7.7 billion Reichsmarks, at official exchange ●●

1940 395 EZ Britain and America: Hitler’s Strategic Dilemma In July 1940, in a desperate bid to unhitch rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 395 EZ Britain and America: Hitler’s Strategic Dilemma In July 1940, in a desperate bid to unhitch the Soviet Union from its pact with Germany, Churchill sent Stafford Cripps, his new ambassador in Moscow, to a meeting with the Soviet dictator. ●●

1940 But once Roosevelt was safely re-elected in Nov- ember 1940 and the Anglo-American alliance began to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But once Roosevelt was safely re-elected in Nov- ember 1940 and the Anglo-American alliance began to take on concrete form, the Third Reich too faced an acute strategic dilemma.’ In the short term neither Britain nor America posed a direct military t ●●

1940 Despite the euphoria that followed the victory parades of July 1940, these basic preconditions for t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite the euphoria that followed the victory parades of July 1940, these basic preconditions for the defeat of Britain were never met.’ At no point in the war did Germany assemble the naval or aerial forces necessary to dominate the British Isles t ●●

1940 461 1940 - Newfoundland, Bermuda, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 461 1940 - Newfoundland, Bermuda, St ●●

1940 The last reference has to candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The last reference has to do with the bacteriological warfare experiments the Japanese had carried out against China between 1940 and 1942 ●●

1940 Battle of Britain enters critical phase rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By September 1940, Hitler faces strategic dilemma after both German navy and Luftwaffe fail to achieve decisive victory; Germany lacks technology and resources for successful invasion. ●●

1940 Hitler faces strategic dilemma after Battle of Britain failure rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By September 1940, German navy and Luftwaffe fail; Hitler cannot bring decisive weapon against Britain. ●●

1940 Britain launches strategic bombing offensive on Germany ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Autumn 1940: Britain begins building heavy bomber fleet to destroy German industry and war economy. ●●

1940 Anglo-American aircraft production scheme drafted ai_extracted 1 cit. no story July 23, 1940: Secret meeting produces scheme for 72,000 aircraft per year production expansion. ●●

1940 Roosevelt proposes 50,000 aircraft per year ai_extracted 1 cit. no story President Roosevelt proposes world's largest military-industrial complex with 50,000 aircraft yearly capacity. ●●

1940 Jack Parsons Communicates with Crowley rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Levenda describes that Ray and Mildred Burlingame were in direct communication with Alistair Crowley in the 1940s when Jack Parsons was being considered for a leadership position with the OTO Agape Lodge. ●●

25 June 1941 to 19 September 1944 Continuation War wikidata 0 cit. no story 1941-1944 Finnish war against USSR ●●●●

1941 United States supplies Britain through Lend-Lease ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Instead of the commercial financing used in World War I, the US provided Britain 27 billion dollars in Lend-Lease supplies, received 6 billion back, and wrote off the account for about 800 million in the postwar settlement. ●●

1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite purges, low living standards, and inefficiency, Soviet industrial power had grown enough that the world was amazed at the USSR's ability to withstand the German assault that began on June 22, 1941. ●●

1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Facing economic strangulation and expecting that seizing the Dutch Indies would draw an American war, the Japanese militarists decided to strike first, producing the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. ●●

1941 Coup d'etat in Yugoslavia overthrows the regency ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On the night of March 26-27, 1941, a military coup overthrew the Yugoslav regency days after it had signed the Tripartite Pact, replacing Prince Paul with young King Peter. The new government signed a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union. ●●

1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hours after Yugoslavia signed a treaty with the Soviet Union, the Luftwaffe bombarded Belgrade and thirty-three German divisions invaded Yugoslavia and Greece in early April 1941. Both countries were overrun within three weeks. ●●

1941 Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In January 1941 Roosevelt stated America's foreign-policy aims in his 'Four Freedoms' speech: freedom of speech and worship, and freedom from want and fear. It framed the goals America hoped to advance while staying out of the war. ●●

1941 Lend-Lease Act becomes law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Introduced as H.R. 1776 on January 10, 1941, the Lend-Lease bill became law two months later. It let the President transfer defense articles to any nation whose defense he deemed vital to the United States. ●●

1941 Atlantic Charter issued ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After four days of conferences aboard the Prince of Wales, August 9-12, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter as their first formal statement of war aims. It renounced territorial aggrandizement and endorsed self-determination and free trade. ●●

1941 Selective service extended by one vote ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An act extending the term of selective-service training by eighteen months passed Congress on August 12, 1941, by a single vote, 203-202. Republicans were solidly opposed, with only 21 voting for it. ●●

1941 Hitler declares war on the United States ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor. Quigley calls this Hitler's greatest mistake, since it spared the Roosevelt Administration from having to justify attacking Germany after being struck by Japan. ●●

1941 German torpedo destroys the Reuben James ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic, the destroyer Reuben James was blown apart with great loss of life in late October 1941. Such incidents multiplied as American escorts covered British convoys. ●●

1941 Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The German armies launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union at dawn on June 22, 1941, at the peak of their power. Within days huge pincer envelopments captured hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops. ●●

1941 German envelopment east of Kiev ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After Hitler shifted emphasis south, German Army Group South completed a vast envelopment east of Kiev between August 24 and September 21, 1941, capturing 665,000 prisoners. Hitler called it the greatest battle in history; his chief of staff called it the greatest strategic blunder of the campaign. ●●

1941 Hitler orders the attack on Moscow ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On September 6, 1941, in Directive No. 35, Hitler abruptly accepted his generals' advice and ordered an attack on Moscow. By then it was arguably too late for a successful assault on the Soviet capital. ●●

1941 Hitler assumes personal command of the army ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On December 19, 1941, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was relieved as commander in chief and Hitler took the post himself. He ordered that the army was not to withdraw a single step. ●●

1941 Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Foreign Minister Matsuoka signed a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in Moscow on April 13, 1941. It later allowed the Soviet Union to shift Far Eastern forces westward to help defend Moscow. ●●

1941 Japan moves troops into southern Indochina ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 21, 1941, Japan's threats won from Vichy France the right to move troops into southern Indochina. This posed a threat to British Malaya and triggered a sharp American response. ●●

1941 United States freezes Japanese assets ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 26, 1941, the United States froze all Japanese financial assets, virtually ending trade between the two countries. The British Commonwealth and the Netherlands Indies followed with similar restrictions, cutting off oil and other vital goods. ●●

1941 Japan orders the attack on Pearl Harbor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On November 10, 1941, operations orders went out to the Japanese Navy to destroy the American fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7th. Orders had already been issued to conquer Thailand, Malaya, the Philippines, and other objectives. ●●

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Japanese air strike on Pearl Harbor began at 7:55 on December 7, 1941, and within thirty minutes wiped out the Battle Line of the Pacific Fleet. American losses included some 2,400 killed and four battleships sunk. ●●

1941 Soviet-Polish agreement of July 1941 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the German attack on Russia, the Soviet Union reestablished relations with the Polish government-in-exile and signed an agreement on July 30, 1941, cancelling the 1939 partition treaties and granting amnesty to imprisoned Poles. It allowed General Anders to raise a new Polish army. ●●

1941 Blackett and Operational Research ai_extracted 1 cit. no story P. M. S. Blackett pioneered Operational Research for the British war effort. In 1941 he argued that scientists could bring numerical thinking to military operations. ●●

1941 OSRD established ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In May 1941 the Office of Scientific Research and Development was created with Bush as chairman and Conant as his deputy, expanding the wartime mobilization of science. ●●

1941 All-out atomic effort decided before Pearl Harbor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The decision to make an all-out effort to unlock atomic energy was taken on 6 December 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. ●●

1941 Khrushchev's secret speech: Stalin ignored 1941 invasion warnings ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley quotes Khrushchev's 1956 secret speech charging that Stalin disregarded repeated warnings of the German attack. It states that by April 3, 1941, Churchill had personally warned Stalin through Ambassador Cripps that Germany was regrouping to attack the USSR. ●●

1941 Gatto hears the Pearl Harbor announcement on the radio ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recalls hearing FDR announce the Pearl Harbor attack on the radio eight days before his sixth birthday, a memory that dates to December 1941. ●●

1941 Scale of Soviet labor camps before 1941 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book quotes Quigley that estimates of people held in Soviet slave-labor camps before 1941 ranged from two million to twenty million. It presents Soviet terror as a Network-tolerated horror. ●●

1941 Year 1941: Iran’s Foreign Policy 1941–1973 (Charlottesville: rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iran’s Foreign Policy 1941–1973 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975). ●●

1941 Year 1941: The British forced him from his throne in 1941. Hi rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The British forced him from his throne in 1941. His eldest son, the future Mohammad Reza Shah, stands second from left. ●●

1941 The slaughter that followed the candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The slaughter that followed the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 is without equal in world history. ●●

1941 Millions of Soviet POWs starved in German camps ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The evidence indicates that between 3 and 4 million captured Soviet soldiers were intentionally starved to death in German POW camps between 1941 and 1944. ●●

1941 Hitler was, however, willing to candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hitler was, however, willing to go along with the pretense of a supposedly independent “Russian Liberation Movement” as a propaganda ploy, so a psychological warfare operation built around those themes was undertaken by Gehlen and Strik-Strikfeldt as early as 1941 and continued throughout the war. ●●

1941 Vlasov, who had been personally rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Vlasov, who had been personally honored by Stalin in 1941 for his courage in the defense of Moscow against German attack, had defected to the Nazis the next year following a humiliating defeat. ●●

1941 Franz Six leads the Vorkommando Moskau into the USSR ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1941 Six led the Vorkommando Moskau, an advance squad of the Nazi invasion, whose job it was to seize Communist party and NKVD archives in order to compile lists of hunted Soviet officials and to liquidate those who were caught. ●●

1941 Hilger, it is true, had rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hilger, it is true, had initially opposed the German invasion of the USSR in 1941 and had mentioned this to Hitler during a private conference on the eve of the blitzkrieg. Hilger’s advice was rejected, however, and he continued to serve the Reich dutifully throughout the war. ●●

1941 The Nazis poured money and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Nazis poured money and arms into the OUN during the two years leading up to the Germans’ 1941 invasion of the USSR. ●●

1941 The Latvian Fascist Perkonkrust Führer rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Latvian Fascist Perkonkrust Führer Gustav Celmins, for example, had organized a Latvian SS unit in 1941 and served as a Nazi agent inside nationalist circles throughout the war. He went on to become an officer in the powerful Rome branch of Intermarium. ●●

1941 Thousands of Jewish prisoners were murdered by the SS at rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thousands of Jewish prisoners were murdered by the SS at the forced-labor camp; hundreds of thousands were killed at the extermination center. On Zegners, see “Aplilciba 1941 y 20 ... ●●

1941 509–17 and 527–30. For text and commentary on 1941 Vichy rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 509–17 and 527–30. For text and commentary on 1941 Vichy document concerning Vatican position on treatment of Jews discussed in footnote, see L. Poliakov, “The Vatican and the Jewi... ●●

1941 to Luther, January 8, 1941, marked “Urgent!”; Luther to Vizenkonsul rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story to Luther, January 8, 1941, marked “Urgent!”; Luther to Vizenkonsul Beuttler, January 13, 1941; Der Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (VI A 42 Ke/Str.) to Luther, January 10, ... ●●

1941 British and Soviet troops occupy Iran ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To prevent Nazi operations in Iran and secure their supply lines, British and Soviet troops enter Iran on August 25, 1941. ●●

1941 Reza Shah abdicates the throne ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Reza Shah abdicates on September 16, 1941, unable to resist Allied pressure and internal political collapse, abandoning his dictatorship. ●●

1941 Rentschler Announces National City's Defense Financing Role rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At National City Bank's annual stockholders meeting on January 17, 1941, Chairman Rentschler announced the bank's active participation in war financing. The bank would distribute bonds and finance war production. ●●

1941 Chase Bank Mobilizes for War Intervention rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On October 2, 1941, Chase chairman Winthrop Aldrich moved to position his bank behind U.S. entry into World War II. Aldrich used his banking position and political connections to advance American military intervention. ●●

1941 • • • In 1941 a real estate developer built a six-foot high wall right rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story • • • In 1941 a real estate developer built a six-foot high wall right across Detroit’s 8 Mile district. ●●

1941 Ingrid’s apartment overlooked the garden of the Museum of Mo... (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ingrid steadfastly ignored hints of family displeasure about Veniero’s character. In January 1941, he issued an ultimatum; either Ingrid would marry h... ●●

1941 CHAPTER 35––Deathwatch Even as the Warburgs sounded the ala... (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER 35––Deathwatch Even as the Warburgs sounded the alarm about the German menace in America and Britain, the Nazis exploited their good name in ... ●●

1941 CHAPTER 36––Little Man and Fat Boy Settled in a comfortable... (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Shortly after Germany invaded Poland, he inscribed on its back: “The events of the war and the revolutionary time in Germany only made it ever clearer... ●●

1941 Part Five THE RETURN OF THE ALSTERUFER AND MITTELWEG WARBURG... (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Part Five THE RETURN OF THE ALSTERUFER AND MITTELWEG WARBURGS ——Siegmund Warburg and his son, George, in officer training corps uniform, Deerhaddn, 1... ●●

1941 CHAPTER 41––Museum Pieces In 1941 (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER 41––Museum Pieces In 1941, Frieda Schiff Warburg had a heart attack, which was delicately styled a “breakdown” by the family. It began a slow... ●●

1941 It was Carola who held together the Warburg family (1941) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In many ways, the European socialism represented by Ben-Gurion and other early leaders pleased the Warburgs more than the conservative nationalism tha... ●●

1941 1941 European rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Hitler’s case, the issue is complicated by his scorn for the United States as a degenerate, miscegenated power, but he also sensed that he dared not wait until the mid-1940s to ... ●●

1941 1941 Military Campaign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Russo-German war, the Wehrmacht resumed its brutal offensives once the winter of 1941–1942 had passed and battled its way toward the Caucasus; at almost the same time, the f... ●●

1941 1941 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If the fate of the Axis Powers was sealed after December 1941, there was little indication that they knew it. ●●

1941 1941 Economic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first of the extra-European disputes between Russia and the West was very much a legacy of such ad hoc wartime arrangements; in 1941–1943 Iran had been placed under tripartite ... ●●

1941 10. New York World Telegram, February 19, 1941 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 10. New York World Telegram, February 19, 1941. ●●

1941 6. The New York Times, January 29, 1941 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 6. The New York Times, January 29, 1941. ●●

1941 7. New York Herald Tribune, April 25, 1941 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 7. New York Herald Tribune, April 25, 1941. ●●

1941 8. JW. Box 16, “Harry G. Green 5/41,” rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 8. JW. Box 16, “Harry G. Green 5/41,” letter to Senator Bennett C. Clark, May 8, 1941. ●●

1941 1. New York World Telegram, February 19, 1941 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1. New York World Telegram, February 19, 1941. ●●

1941 1. LBI-SGW-SZ. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1. LBI-SGW-SZ. Letter from Siegmund G. Warburg to Stefan Zweig, May 14, 1941. ●●

1941 George Seldes reports on tobacco industry health risks in In Fact journal rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Independent journalist George Seldes reports on medical discoveries about tobacco risks in his muckraking journal In Fact, one of the few voices speaking against tobacco industry propaganda. ●●

1941 World War II 1941-1945 devastates Russia rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story World War II from 1941-1945 cost Russia multiple millions of military and civilian casualties and vast economic devastation, the most traumatic event in twentieth-century Russian history. ●●

1941 “He was impressed and he was concerned rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “He was impressed and he was concerned.”1167 Both Teller and Wigner, Szilard wrote in a background memorandum in 1941, “shared the opinion that no time must be lost in following up this line of development and in the discussion that followed, the opinion crystallized that an attempt ought to be made to enlist the support of the Government rather than that of private industry. ●●

1941 12 A Communication from Britain James Bryant Conant traveled to London in the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 12 A Communication from Britain James Bryant Conant traveled to London in the winter of 1941 to open a liaison office between the British government and the National Defense Research Council.1403 Conant was the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit the beleaguered nation following the ad hoc exchanges of the Tizard Mission and he came to count the trip “the most extraordinary experience of my life.” “I was hailed as a messenger of hope,” he writes in his autobiography. ●●

1941 In that summer of 1941, with recollections of what I had seen and heard in Engla rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In that summer of 1941, with recollections of what I had seen and heard in England fresh in my mind, I was impatient with the arguments of some of the physicists associated with the Uranium Committee whom I met from time to time. ●●

1941 “In the summer of 1941,” John Dunning’s associate Eugene Booth remembers, “Brigg rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “In the summer of 1941,” John Dunning’s associate Eugene Booth remembers, “Briggs visited us in the basement of Pupin at Columbia to see our experiment for the separation of U235 by [gaseous] diffusion of uranium hexafluoride. ●●

1941 The Minister of Posts, imagining himself handing Hitler the decisive secret weap rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Minister of Posts, imagining himself handing Hitler the decisive secret weapon of the war, had funded the building of a million-volt Van de Graaff and two cyclotrons, all under construction in 1941. ●●

1941 After the summer of 1941 the German bomb program depended entirely on uranium an rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story After the summer of 1941 the German bomb program depended entirely on uranium and Vemork heavy water. ●●

1941 In May 1941 he lectured on “Super-explosive U235,” reviewing existing knowledge rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In May 1941 he lectured on “Super-explosive U235,” reviewing existing knowledge.1468, 1469 He was aware that an explosive chain reaction depended on U235 and understood the necessity of isotope separation: “Because of the potential application of this explosive chain reaction a practical method of achieving this must be found. ●●

1941 “It was from September 1941,” he remarks in consequence, “that we saw an open ro rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “It was from September 1941,” he remarks in consequence, “that we saw an open road ahead of us, leading to the atomic bomb.”1501 He decided to talk to Bohr. ●●

1941 His son Aage, a Nobel laureate in his turn and his father’s successor as directo candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His son Aage, a Nobel laureate in his turn and his father’s successor as director of the Copenhagen institute, summarizes it in a memoir: The impression that in Germany great military importance was given to [atomic energy research] was strengthened by the visit to Copenhagen in the autumn of 1941 of Werner Heisenberg and C. ●●

1941 Bush delivers third NAS report to Roosevelt ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bush personally delivered the third National Academy of Sciences report to the President on November 27, 1941. ●●

1941 13 The New World Enrico Fermi’s team at Columbia University had been hard at w rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 13 The New World Enrico Fermi’s team at Columbia University had been hard at work through 1941 while the government deliberated. ●●