History of Nuclear War VII [W=GreenBaize]

[General Quigley]

I'll give this a try. In please.

GQ

[Dukasaur]

in pls

in plz..

You get spots 39 and 40, respectively.

I'll give this a try. In please.

GQ

... and you sir will be First Reserve.

Ready to go!

[Dukasaur]

Phase 1]As we covered in History of Nuclear War I, U.S. government participation in nuclear research began in 1939, only two months after the Einstein-Szilard letter was written. Sufficient impetus to spend the enormous funds required to develop a practical nuclear weapon didn't materialize until after the Pearl Harbour attack brought the U.S. officially into WW II.
By June of 1942, the effort was centralized under the U.S. Army. Its initial budget was $54 million, but eventually ballooned to two billion dollars by the end of the war. The first headquarters of the project was at 270 Broadway in Manhattan, and it became known as the Manhattan Engineering District, or "Manhattan Project."
Phase 1
40 players in 5 groups will play 8-player games on the New York City map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Games have been created and invitations sent out.

Welcome to the tournament, and good luck on the road ahead!

[Dukasaur]

Soldier4Christ has missed 1st invite. Re-sending.

[Dukasaur]

Soldier4Christ has missed 2 invites and has to be replaced. Reserve General Quigley is called up to active duty.

[merch313]

Tourney active

[Dukasaur]

Phase One sees jeremscarem, musteriuz, Vartiovuori, giannikas and kirilko dying of radiation poisoning in their primitive laboratories.

Phase Two coming right up!

[Dukasaur]

Phase 2]On December 2nd, 1942, the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction was created at the University of Chicago. Enrico Fermi, the designer of the experiment, was finally able to demonstrate the power of nuclear fission, which he had predicted almost 20 years earlier. A now-famous indicator of the urgency in the effort is that Fermi's reactor was located under the bleachers in the University's football field, because a permanent facility being build for him in the Argonne Forest wasn't ready.
Although the University of Chicago was a major star in the early days of the Manhattan project, it was soon eclipsed. Being focused on mainly theoretical and scientific questions, it steadily lost influence in a Manhattan Project that was mainly concerned with the practical engineering issues involved in building bombs. After the war, the Argonne lab would regain prominence, as a leader in peaceful applications of nuclear energy.
Phase 2
35 players in 5 groups will play 7-player games on the Chicago map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

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Phase 2 games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Dukasaur]

Develi missed first invite into his Phase 2 game; re-sent. Other than that, all Phase 2 games have successfully begun.

[Dukasaur]

Develi has now missed two invites and is disqualified. Jeremscarem is reinstated.

[Dukasaur]

Lots of places to hide in Chicago. Still 2 games with no elimination.

[Dukasaur]

We leave behind P4Ssoa, Hornet95, Westbo, jeremscarem, and perchorin. Phase 3 coming right up!

[Dukasaur]

Phase 3]By far the largest facility run under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project was the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Here, Uranium-235 was separated from Uranium-238 by a variety of processes, all of which were experimental and needed to be developed and improved "on the fly." The centrifuge method was a failure and was soon abandoned, but electromagnetic separation, gasseous diffusion, and thermal diffusion were all successful to some degree and contributed to the final stockpile of fissionable uranium. By 1945 there were 75,000 people working at Oak Ridge, and the K-25 gasseous diffusion plant was the single largest building on the planet.
Phase 3
30 players in 5 groups will play 6-player games on the USA Southeast map. The first player eliminated in each game is out of the tournament. The remainder will go on to the next round.

Games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Dukasaur]

CJMONSTERNATOR missed his invite into his Phase 3 game. I checked his wall and he hasn't been online since May 14th, so I'm not even bothering with the formality of a second invite and simply replacing him.

Jeremscarem was the player eliminated in CJ's Phase 2 game, so jerem is readmitted.

[Dukasaur]

Still one game without an elimination.

[Dukasaur]

In Phase 3 we leave behind rjhankey, uckuki, Wizz00, jeremscarem, and Zion T.

Phase 4 games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Dukasaur]

Creeping Jesus missed his invite into his Phase 4 game. Checking his other games, I see he has deadbeated games all over the place and is presumably offline for the long term. I'm therefore not even bothering with a second invite. ZionT was the player eliminated in Jesus' Phase 3 game, and is therefore reinstated.

[Dukasaur]

In the meltdown of the Chalk River nuclear plant, five brave researchers lost their lives: chidone, Leverpuller, Enochs BarmyArmy, Vaicius, and crazy4catnip.

Phase 5 games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Dukasaur]

ZionT and ruleroftheworld1 have missed their first invite into their Phase 5 game. Re-sent.

[Dukasaur]

Contrary to published reports, four people, not two, died in Los Alamos accidents involving the Demon Core. They are ruleroftheworld1, TX AG 90, delibekir, and General Quigley.

Phase 6 games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Dukasaur]

Phase 6 sees the end of Marshallbobby and Risk_Averse.

Phase 7 games have been created and invitations sent out!

Two 7-player games in the seventh phase of the seventh tournament in this series --- oooh, spooky...

[Dukasaur]

ZionT missed his first invite into his Phase 7 game. Re-sent.

[Clive]

Tournament Still Active

[Dukasaur]

Jessamine and Shai find themselves blasted with radiation on the beach in Australia.

Everyone else goes on to the Marianas in preparation for the assault on Japan.

Phase 8 games have been created and invitations sent out!

[Clive]

Tournament Still Active