Arthur V. Peterson
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Arthur V. Peterson
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Arthur Vincent (Pete) Peterson 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 chie
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United States Army officer
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2024-03-26T13:55:29Z
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