manhattan+project

home //“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all felt that one way or another.” J R. Oppenheimer // The Manhattan Project is government's secret project that was established before World War II and culminated in the development of the nuclear bomb. The idea of forming a research team to create a nuclear weapon was endorsed in a letter from Einstein sent to Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. Under Oppenheimer's guidance, the laboratories of Los Alamos were built. That is where, he brought the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating an atomic bomb. In the end, he was managing more than 3,000 people, as well as solving theoretical and mechanical problems that arose. And because of this he is often referred to as the "father" of the atomic bomb. The work of the scientists at Los Alamos resulted in the first nuclear explosion at July 16, 1945, which Oppenheimer named "Trinity." Later in the project atomic bomb was exploded on July 16, 1945.

A month after the first bomb was tested, two nuclear weapons were exploded over Japan, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The official reason is that it would immediately end the war, thus saving the lives of thousands of American. Immediate deaths from the bomb are estimated to be about 100,000. However, the choice to drop the bombs on Japan is very controversial and there are many people that feel they were unneccsary, and that Japan would have surrenedered anyway.

Undoubtedly, the atomic bomb is the most powerful destructive force that mankind has ever made