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The Manhattan Project
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over
the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city
went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The
project was a success. The people who were responsible were civilian, military scientific
brain power-brilliant, intense, and young people. Unknowingly, they came to an isolated
mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that
would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and
destruction. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World
War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately named for the Manhattan
Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because much of the early
research was done in New York City (Badash 238). Sparked by refugee physicists in the
United States, the program was......

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