"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
The MANHATTAN project
- American plan (program) to develop nuclear weapons
- Run by Robert Oppenheimer
- 100,000 people working on secret project at the height of it (Unaware of what they were creating)
- Developed three bombs in 1945 “Trinity”, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
- “Little Boy” a uranium bomb was detonated over Hiroshima
- “Fat Man” a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
- Run by Robert Oppenheimer
- 100,000 people working on secret project at the height of it (Unaware of what they were creating)
- Developed three bombs in 1945 “Trinity”, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
- “Little Boy” a uranium bomb was detonated over Hiroshima
- “Fat Man” a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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Summary
The Manhattan project was a research and development program by the United States coordinated with the UK and Canada which produced the first ever atomic bomb in WWII which was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The program was run by Robert Oppenheimer and developed three bombs in 1945: Trinity, Little Boy, and Fat Man. Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.