Manhattan Project: The Most Impactful Events That Changed The World's Future
Manhattan project, an event that has its roots back in the 1940s has been one of the most impactful events that has changed the world’s future. Manhattan project was the coded name for a secret project that emerged in 1942 in order to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Firstly this project was placed in Manhattan city, and after, was spread out all over the United States. However, mainly it was based on Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Argonne with Hanford including also some other very famous universities on the United States. Employing more than 100.000 Americans but none of them knew what they were working for, including here the vice president of the United States. The reason of this is because this process was kept very secret in order to be safe
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Manhattan project was the coded name for a secret project that emerged in 1942 in order to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Firstly this project was placed in Manhattan city, and after, was spread out all over the United States. However, mainly it was based on Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Argonne with Hanford including also some other very famous universities on the United States. Employing more than 100.000 Americans but none of them knew what they were working for, including here the vice president of the United States. The reason of this is because this process was kept very secret in order to be safe from ‘prying eyes” (Cooper, 2012). As Craig Blohm said in his report “Building a bomb unlike any other was a difficult task. Two very different groups, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and scientists, had to work together. The army took care of producing and gathering materials while the scientists experimented with radioactive material”. Even though this process started with just a 6 000 dollar budget the resources that were used during 1942- 45 were unimaginable, the cost of the Manhattan project alone it passed all the spending of the United States during World War two. The most important figures who influenced this project were some of the famous European scientists like Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi. In addition, in the early summer of 1939 the world’s most famous scientists discovered that the Nazi Germany was trying to create a new weapon. Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he informed the President about the possibilities of developing a nuclear weapon. It is recorded, that he also told him that the Nazi Germany probably was trying to create this weapon; he stated in his first letter “I understand that Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the
Manhattan project was the coded name for a secret project that emerged in 1942 in order to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Firstly this project was placed in Manhattan city, and after, was spread out all over the United States. However, mainly it was based on Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Argonne with Hanford including also some other very famous universities on the United States. Employing more than 100.000 Americans but none of them knew what they were working for, including here the vice president of the United States. The reason of this is because this process was kept very secret in order to be safe from ‘prying eyes” (Cooper, 2012). As Craig Blohm said in his report “Building a bomb unlike any other was a difficult task. Two very different groups, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and scientists, had to work together. The army took care of producing and gathering materials while the scientists experimented with radioactive material”. Even though this process started with just a 6 000 dollar budget the resources that were used during 1942- 45 were unimaginable, the cost of the Manhattan project alone it passed all the spending of the United States during World War two. The most important figures who influenced this project were some of the famous European scientists like Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi. In addition, in the early summer of 1939 the world’s most famous scientists discovered that the Nazi Germany was trying to create a new weapon. Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, where he informed the President about the possibilities of developing a nuclear weapon. It is recorded, that he also told him that the Nazi Germany probably was trying to create this weapon; he stated in his first letter “I understand that Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the