Manhattan Project?

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reason for creation & use?

do you think it was completely necessary? [your opinon]

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reason for creation & use?

do you think it was completely necessary? [your opinon]

The Manhattan Project

During the Second World War, the United States and Britain jointly participated in the monumental task of building an atomic bomb. The project was code named the "Manhattan Project" to obscure its purpose, and because the first meetings were conducted in Manhattan.

In 1942, General Leslie Groves was chosen to direct the project. He quickly purchased land for research and production facilities around the country. Oak Ridge, Tennessee was chosen to process the uranium-235, and Hanford, Washington was procured for the site of the world's first production reactor.

For the scientific research and development, Groves chose Los Alamos, New Mexico for the location and J. Robert Oppenheimer for the project's science director.

During the next three years, thousands of scientists and technicians worked on building the bomb. In the end, they had produced three: "Gadget," "Little Boy," and "Fat Man."

Gadget was exploded in Alamogordo to make sure their design for "Fat Man" (a plutonium-based bomb) would work. "Little Boy" (a uranium-based bomb) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, and "Fat Man" was later dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th.

Well, Elizabet has it covered. Always remember Because of Pearl Harbor, there was a Hiroshima.

The Japanese armed forces and the population lived under the code of Bushido. Read about how civilians threw themselves off the cliffs on Okinawa. The soldiers and general population would defend their homeland or die trying. They would not give up. As we island hopped closer to Japan, we realized that a physical invastion would kill hundreds of thousands of our troops. Recognizing our enemy, we went ahead with the Manhattan Project. You might want to watch the movie. "Fat Man and Little Boy" for some perspective...As an aside , a lot of Manhattan Project research occurred UNDER Soldier Field in Chicago.

We talked to the Japanese and they knew the war was lost but they would not surrender and stocked their homeland awaiting the American Invasion, pumping up the population about the White Devils that ate Japanese babys.

We had to do it to end the war and save lives.

Uranium mining was big at that time.
FDR's son, as well as the grandfather of George W. Bush were both bankers involved in the uranium mining business.

Just follow the money!!!