hurchill and President Roosevelt agreed to pool one others information, and work on equal terms. Henceforth, work on the bomb project would be pursued as a combined Anglo-American effort. The name chosen for this project was agreed to be the "Manhattan project" (Yass 33-35).
In September 1942 a site was found at Clinton in the Tennessee Valley. It later became known as Oak Ridge, a 'secret city' of prefabricated homes built for those working on the separation of uranium. (Yass 35).
Enrico Fermi creates first successful nuclear chain reaction
On December 2 ,1942 Fermi achieves nuclear chain reaction in Chicago. It had been produced, kept under control, and stopped. A month later the first plutonium plant was created in the nearby village of Richland (Yass 38).
...