Project Alberta, known as Project A, was a section of the Manhattan Project which assisted in delivering the first nuclear weapons in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
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10 Facts About Project Alberta
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Project Alberta was formed in March 1945, and consisted of 51 United States Army, Navy, and civilian personnel, including one British scientist.
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Manhattan Project Alberta began in October 1941, just before US entry into World War II.
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Project Alberta Y controlled the scheduling and contents of the tests, which were carried out by the Flight Test Section of the 216th Army Air Forces Base Unit as Project Alberta W-47.
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Project Alberta, known as Project A, was formed in March 1945, absorbing existing groups of Parsons's Ordnance Division that were working on bomb preparation and delivery.
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The 1st Technical Service Detachment, to which the personnel of Project Alberta were administratively assigned, was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva, and provided security and housing services on Tinian.
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Manhattan Project Alberta and United States Army Air Forces officials agreed in December 1944 that operations would be basedin the Mariana Islands, and the following month Parsons and Ashworth held a conference with USAAF officers to discuss the logistics of establishing such a base.
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Project Alberta simply designated everything as a "bomb assembly kit".
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Project Alberta was equipped with a special high-speed Fastax movie camera with six seconds of film in order to record the blast.
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Project Alberta still had three test assemblies, F101, F102 and F103, but the damaged F32 was unserviceable, so new explosive blocks would have to be flown in from Project Camel.
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