The Manhattan Project
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- American plan to develop nuclear weapons
- Run by Robert Oppenheimer
- 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
Summary: Three Bombs developed during the Manhattan project. It was kept secret even though over 100,000 people worked on it.
Subjective question: How did they manage to keep such a big operation secret?
Quote: "The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country" Oppenheimer
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