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MAUD and Committee
In World War II the laboratory carried out research for the MAUD Committee, part of the British Tube Alloys project of research into the Atomic Bomb.
In 1943, the NKVD obtained a copy of a secret British report by the MAUD Committee concerning the feasibility of atomic weapons, which led Joseph Stalin to order the commencement of a Soviet nuclear programme ( albeit with very limited resources ).
A committee, code-named the MAUD Committee, sent the report to the American " Uranium Committee " around March 1941 but the Americans seemingly took no action.
In 1940-41 Blackett served on the MAUD Committee which concluded that an atomic bomb was feasible.
The March 1940 Frisch – Peierls memorandum resulted in Tizard setting up of the British MAUD Committee to investigate the feasibility of an atomic bomb.
The biggest problem faced by the MAUD Committee was to find a way to separate the 0. 7 % of uranium-235 from the 99. 3 % of uranium-238.
The MAUD Committee realized that an atomic bomb was " not just feasible ; it was inevitable ".
When there was no reaction from America to the reports of the MAUD Committee, Mark Oliphant crossed the Atlantic in an unheated bomber in August 1941.
In particular Thomson was the chairman of the crucial MAUD Committee in 1940 – 1941 that concluded that an atomic bomb was feasible.
Gaseous diffusion was devised by Francis Simon and Nicholas Kurti at the Clarendon Laboratory in 1940, tasked by the MAUD Committee with finding a method for separating Uranium-235 from Uranium-238 in order to produce a bomb for the British Tube Alloys project.
* MAUD Committee, the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project
Given to Marcus Oliphant, Oliphant passed the document on to Henry Tizard, chairman of the Committee on the Scientific Survey of Air Defence who, as a result, requested the setting-up of what was to become the secret MAUD Committee.
The memorandum helped galvanize both Britain and America down a path which led to a report by the British MAUD Committee, the Tube Alloys project, the Manhattan Project, and ultimately the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
* April 10: MAUD Committee ( Military Application of Uranium Detonation ) established by Henry Tizard to investigate feasibility of an atomic bomb
The first page of the MAUD Committee report, 15 July 1941, written by James Chadwick.
* July 2: The MAUD Committee chooses James Chadwick to write the second ( and final ) draft of its report on the design and costs of developing a bomb.
* July 15: The MAUD Committee issues final detailed technical report on design and costs to develop a bomb.

MAUD and had
However, Franz Simon had been commissioned by MAUD to investigate methods.

MAUD and Chadwick
* April-May: MAUD committee research in Liverpool, led by Chadwick, showed that a bomb's critical mass could be reached with maybe less than 8 kg of uranium.
* October 3: Official copy of MAUD Report ( written by Chadwick ) reaches Bush.

MAUD and .
The memo prompted the MAUD Report which in turn led to the Tube Alloys project.
The MAUD Reports finally made a big impression.
Lavrenty Beria ’ s report to Stalin of March 1942 included the MAUD report and other British documents.
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However there was little impetus until the British MAUD Committee's findings were presented in 1941.
* The MAUD program-software for Rietveld refinement.
* December: Franz Simon reports to MAUD that uranium-235 can be separated using gaseous diffusion.

Committee and consisted
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With Stalin's takeover, the role of the Central Committee was eclipsed by the Politburo, which consisted of a small clique of loyal Stalinists.
NATO maintains lists of these names and the assignment of the names for the Russian and Chinese aircraft is handled by the five-nation Air Standardization Coordinating Committee ( ASCC ) which consisted of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
The objective of the Committee of 14 which consisted two leaders from each of the 7 provinces was the establishment of a democratically elected council of two leaders from each province to rule the country by consensus with the President as Head of State.
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The Committee consisted of three Lords of Appeal or Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.
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This meeting also elected a Steering Committee which consisted of a spectrum of left-wingers including representatives of Labour Left Briefing and the Communist Party of Britain.
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In the first election of the Chief Executive, the Committee consisted of only 400 members Election Committee.
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He was also the chairman of the Committee on Political and Social Problems regarding the atomic bomb ; the committee consisted of himself and other scientists at the Met Lab, including Donald J. Hughes, J. J. Nickson, Eugene Rabinowitch, Glenn T. Seaborg, J. C. Stearns and Leó Szilárd.
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