The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first nuclear weapon (atomic bomb) during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation of a plutonium implosion bomb on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code-named "Little Boy" on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a second plutonium bomb, code-named "Fat Man" on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.
The project's roots lay in scientists' fears since the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also investigating nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion USD ($23 billion in 2007 dollars based on CPI). It resulted in the creation of multiple production and research sites that operated in secret.
The three primary research and production sites of the project were the plutonium-production facility at what is now the Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the weapons research and design laboratory, now known as Los Alamos National Laboratory. Project research took place at over thirty different sites across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947.
The code name for the building of the atomic bomb
The Manhattan project was located in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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In addition to the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both of which were developed by the Manhattan Project, the team also successfully detonated a bomb during the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico. (see: http://www.answers.com/topic/manhattan-project)
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The atom bomb research and development were conducted under the Manhattan project.
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The Manhattan Project ran from 1942 to 1946.
The Manhattan Project was the beginning of the nuclear age.
This question is confusing because the Manhattan Project ended in the Forties. There was a nuclear project in Washington along the Columbia River but it was not the Manhattan Project after the Forties.
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Manhattan Project was the code name for the secret project to design and build a nuclear bomb.
The Manhattan project was located in Los Alamos, New Mexico.