Manhattan Project
Following the signing of the Quebec Agreement in August, 1943, Peierls joined the Manhattan Project, located in the United States. Peierls was part of the British team, along with Klaus Fuchs, whom he recruited for the project. Peierls was initially located in New York and later at the Los Alamos Laboratory, where he played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb. Notably, when the materials were shipped to build the Little Boy first nuclear bomb at Los Alamos, Rudolf Peierls assembled the bomb by hand.
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