Top 10 Cool Facts About the Manhattan Project

Top 10 Cool Facts About the Manhattan Project

 

The birth of the use of nuclear weapons in the United States was during WW2. It started on May 12^th 1942, with The Manhattan Project. It was a top secret project that was signed into action during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This project was considered to be the answer to the nuclear weapons race that was occurring during this time, where Germany, Japan and Russia were also developing their own nuclear weapon capabilities. In an attempt to be the first to win the nuclear race, the US began the

project to create a nuclear weapon. The project was led by Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie R. Groves along with a team of scientists from the United States, Great Britain and Canada.

 

It was secretly carried out in three main locations with in the United States. Hartford, WA, Oak Ridge, TN and Los Alamos, NM. The purpose of The Manhattan Project was the development of the atomic bomb, which was later used on the country of Japan during the later portion of WW2. Its secrecy was to protect the nuclear technology that was in development from potential enemy spies, which in turn, could be placed in enemy hands and help aid in their further research in the development of nuclear weapons. This could have posed a potential threat to the United States and could have changed the course of events in the future.

 

There are many interesting facts about The Manhattan Project. Some of which, much of the general public may know, and some that are simply quite cool. So, here are the top 10 cool facts about The Manhattan Project.