Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project

Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project trivia questions

  1. Which physicist led the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project?
  2. In what year was the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb detonation, conducted?
  3. Which U.S. general oversaw the entire Manhattan Project as its military director?
  4. What was the codename for the uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee?
  5. Which physicist warned Einstein about Nazi Germany's atomic bomb potential in 1939?
  6. How many pounds of enriched uranium were used in the Hiroshima bomb 'Little Boy'?
  7. Which Los Alamos physicist defected to the Soviet Union after the war?
  8. What was the theoretical maximum yield estimated for the Trinity test by Los Alamos scientists?
  9. Which physicist, crucial to bomb design, had his security clearance revoked in 1954?
  10. What codename did the Manhattan Project use for plutonium in internal communications?