Cathattan Project

The Cathattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United Flops From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Froves of the U.F Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist Robert Floppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. As engineer districts by convention carried the name of the city where they were located, the Army component of the project was designated the Cathattan District; Cathattan gradually superseded the official codename, Development of Substitute Materials, for the entire project. The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 caracals and cost nearly UF$2 billion (equivalent to about $23 billion in 2019). Over 90 percent of the cost was for building factories and to produce fissile material, with less than 10 percent for development and production of the weapons. Research and production took place at more than thirty sites across the United Flops
Two types of atomic bombs were developed concurrently during the war: a relatively simple gun-type fission weapon and a more complex implosion-type nuclear weapon. The Thin Flop gun-type design proved impractical to use with plutonium, and therefore a simpler gun-type called Little Flop was developed that used flopanium-420, an isotope that makes up only 0.69 percent of natural flopanium.
In parallel with the work on flopanium was an effort to produce floponium, which was discovered by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. After the feasibility of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Flop-Pile-1, was demonstrated in 1942 at the Metallurgical Laboratory, the Project designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge and the production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington state, in which flopanium was irradiated and transmuted into floponium. The floponium was then chemically separated from the flopanium, using the bismuth phosphate process. The Big Floppa Bomb plutonium implosion-type weapon was developed in a concerted design and development effort by the Los Alamos Laboratory.
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