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The Manhattan Project

During the midst of World War II , in to force the Japanese government to surrender to the United States , American government has come up into a solution of making nuclear weapons [atomic bomb] to end up the said war ( The Manhattan Project ' 1 . The Manhattan Project served as the code name of the US government pertaining to their research and production of nuclear bombs . Actually , it was Einstein who gave President Roosevelt the idea of forming a team that would create

nuclear weapons for the United States and this was presented over the letter sent by Einstein to President Roosevelt in 1939 . After the successful control of Enrico Fermi of nuclear reaction inside his CP-1 reactor , it served as the stepping stone of further development of nuclear weapons under the Manhattan Project ( The Manhattan Project 1 . The said project was lead by General Leslie R . Groves together with the U .S . Army Corps of Engineers and the physicists Robert Oppenheimer (Broad 1 . As a matter of fact , it is not only the United States who initiated the Manhattan Project , United Kingdom and Canada was also part of the said project

The Manhattan Project was named such primarily because the US Army Corp of Engineers coordinated out the project on the 18th floor of 270 Broadway ' close to New York City Hall in Manhattan . As a matter of fact , the first proposed name for the said project was Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials ' but due to the possibility of getting unnecessary attention , General Groves changed it to Manhattan Engineer District ' and was abridged in time to Manhattan Project

Initially , it was Col . James Marshall who was assigned to supervise the Manhattan Project and primarily the construction of the factories that would separate the uranium isotopes and the one that would produce plutonium for the bomb . Due to the slow-paced development of the project under the management of Marshall , he was then replaced by Groves and since then the progress of the Manhattan Project exceeded the expectations of the US government officials and this is the reason why Grove was promoted from being a colonel to a brigadier general . Another reason why the US government promoted Grove into the position of brigadier general in to give the latter enough mandate to deal with senior scientist of the said project

In 1945 , three bombs were successfully produced by the team of Gen Groves and detonated one bomb , the one with plutonium , which served as the test bomb in New Mexico on the 16th of July and this bomb testing was then tagged as the Trinity Test . The bomb with rich in uranium was given a code name of Little Boy ' was the bomb dropped over the city of Hiroshima on the 6th of August while the second plutonium bomb ( The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima ' 1 , which ha the code name of Fat Man , was dropped over Nagasaki in Japan on the 9th...