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This allowed the taking of an xray movie of the implosion. It was led by the united states with the support of the united kingdom and also canada. The manhattan project is a 1986 american science fiction thriller film. Sources and notes for this page the text for this page was adapted from, and portions were taken directly from, the office of history and heritage resources publication.

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