Many Scientists came form Europe to create the atomic bomb, because of Hitler and all that. Albert Einstein was the one who first informed Franklin D. Roosevelt about the idea. When Roosevelt died Harry S. Truman (vice president) stepped in. While all of that was happening; they were still in war with Japan. To make Japan surrender; Truman decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan. They first bombed Hiroshima with a uranium bomb they called "Little Boy". Then when Japan still didn't surrender; Truman decided to also bomb Nagasaki. With a plutonium bomb they called "Fat Man". And that's why (:
The Manhattan project
Alamogordo was the home of the Manhatten Project and Americas nuclear bomb development and testing center.
it was a secert program. the goal was to develop an atomic bomb, a weapon the produces tremendous power by splitting atomics.
The Manhatten Project was the code name of the United State's atomic weapons development program during World War II.
Long Island
The project was called the Manhatten Project
the atomic bomb
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General Leslie Groves
The Manhatten Project.
Franklin d. roosevelt
Los Alamos, NM
The Manhattan Project was the secret research program to develop the atom bomb.
The scientists of the Manhatten Project. Chiefly, J Robert Oppenhiemer as the scientific director of the project.