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What was the British nuclear weapons project that Peierls contributed to called?

  • Tube Alloys

  • Project Manhattan

  • Operation Valkyrie

  • Project Epsilon

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The Tube Alloys was the code name for the British nuclear weapons project during World War II. It was led by Rudolf Peierls, a German-born physicist who had emigrated to the UK in 1933. The project was responsible for the development of the first atomic bomb, which was successfully detonated in July 1945.
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