The Manhattan Project
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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. They were
an unprecedente ....
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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 slowly
organized after nuclear fission was disc ....
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