Manhattan Project
- 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 "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."
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Major project throughout USA. Produced devastating bombs to end war.
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