national defence research committee
The Advisory Committee of Uranium was transferred to the National Defence Research Committee (NDRC), with Vannevar Bush as the head. The military body was deleted and now was entirely a scientific body, with the hope of having more direct money as they will not depend on military for funds.
They continued the isotope separation methods with the chain reaction work. |
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