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Essay Archive - Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project
Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project
The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and
triumphant journey. The United States set out on the development because
of fear-fear that the Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which
would then use it against the U.S. In fact, the Germans had a head start
because the underlying scientific fact, the fission of uranium, was
discovered by two Germans. The effort to develop an atomic bomb was code-
named the "Manhattan Project."
On July 16, 1945, Oppenheimer's and Groves's units conducted a test
firing of the lethal wea....
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