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Essay Archive - The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project
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 unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and military scientific brain
power—brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the
bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain setting, known as Los
Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end W....
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