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Arthur Vincent (Pete) Peterson (October 31, 1912 – March 24, 2008) was a United States Army colonel who served as the Manhattan District's Chicago Area Engineer. In this capacity he was responsible for the Metallurgical Laboratory, which developed the first nuclear reactors. Plutonium bred in these reactors was used in the Fat Man atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. He traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Dwight D. Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons.

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  • Arthur Vincent (Pete) Peterson (October 31, 1912 – March 24, 2008) was a United States Army colonel who served as the Manhattan District's Chicago Area Engineer. In this capacity he was responsible for the Metallurgical Laboratory, which developed the first nuclear reactors. Plutonium bred in these reactors was used in the Fat Man atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. He traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Dwight D. Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons. After the war he was the chief of its Fissionable Materials Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1947 to 1953, when he left to become general manager of the new Atomic Energy Division of American Machine and Foundry, Over the following five years, he supervised the construction of 20 research reactors around the world. He left in 1958 to found his own consulting firm, AVP Associates. (en)
  • Arthur Vincent Peterson (Morristown, 31 ottobre 1912 – Seattle, 24 marzo 2008) è stato un militare statunitense, collaborò al Progetto Manhattan come responsabile dei laboratori di metallurgia che svilupparono i primi reattori nucleari Il plutonio creato in questi laboratori venne utilizzato nella prima bomba atomica Fat Man che venne utilizzata nei Bombardamenti atomici di Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Prima del D-Day si recò in Europa per avvertire il Generale Dwight Eisenhower sui pericoli delle armi radioattive utilizzate dai tedeschi. (it)
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  • Arthur Vincent Peterson (Morristown, 31 ottobre 1912 – Seattle, 24 marzo 2008) è stato un militare statunitense, collaborò al Progetto Manhattan come responsabile dei laboratori di metallurgia che svilupparono i primi reattori nucleari Il plutonio creato in questi laboratori venne utilizzato nella prima bomba atomica Fat Man che venne utilizzata nei Bombardamenti atomici di Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Prima del D-Day si recò in Europa per avvertire il Generale Dwight Eisenhower sui pericoli delle armi radioattive utilizzate dai tedeschi. (it)
  • Arthur Vincent (Pete) Peterson (October 31, 1912 – March 24, 2008) was a United States Army colonel who served as the Manhattan District's Chicago Area Engineer. In this capacity he was responsible for the Metallurgical Laboratory, which developed the first nuclear reactors. Plutonium bred in these reactors was used in the Fat Man atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. He traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Dwight D. Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons. (en)
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