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Essay Archive - The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer
District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United States during World War II, started by
refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized
after nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938, and many
US scientists were scared that Hitler would attempt to build a fission bomb.
Szilard, a nuclear scien....
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