Today, we discuss The Manhattan Project which was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. The controversial creation and eventual use of the atomic bomb engaged some of the world’s leading scientific minds, as well as the U.S. military—and most of the work was done in Los Alamos, New Mexico, not the borough of New York City for which it was originally named. The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s—and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it.

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Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. U.S. Army Center of Military History.

The Manhattan Project—Its Story. U.S. Department of Energy: Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Leo Szilárd, a traffic light and a slice of nuclear history. Scientific American.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Manhattan-Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

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