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In 1939, a vision was put into motion with the creation of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was going to be the answer to the end of World War II and the final factor that would solidify the United States as a true superpower. With the creation of the atomic bomb, no one would stand in the way of the United States. The United States became the "New Rome," and with the power of the Atomic Bomb behind them, no other nation stood in their way.
"My God, what have we done?" - Robert Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb.
On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was after that letter was delivered that the United States began the project, known then only as, "The Manhattan Project." The Manhattan Project......

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