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The '''Manhattan Project''' was a 6-year effort to develop a nuclear [[fission]] weapon before the [[Nazi]]s could, sparked by a warning from European scientists to US [[President Roosevelt]].
The '''Manhattan Project''' was a 6-year effort to develop a nuclear [[fission]] weapon before the [[Nazi]]s could, sparked by a warning from European scientists to US [[President Roosevelt]].
* The Manhattan Project had its roots in a single letter sent from a group of Hungarian scientists to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the help of world-renowned physicist [[Albert Einstein]]. This letter outlines what they saw as a very real and very pressing problem confronting the U.S. and the world -- that Hitler and Germany might develop a weapon based on nuclear fission. This letter led to the development of a small research team to begin a United States effort to build the bomb first ... [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-30940115/lessons-from-the-manhattan-project/?tag=bnetdomain]
* The Manhattan Project had its roots in a single letter sent from a group of Hungarian scientists to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the help of world-renowned physicist [[Albert Einstein]]. This letter outlines what they saw as a very real and very pressing problem confronting the U.S. and the world—that Hitler and Germany might develop a weapon based on nuclear fission. This letter led to the development of a small research team to begin a United States effort to build the bomb first ... [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-30940115/lessons-from-the-manhattan-project/?tag=bnetdomain]
The general in charge of the project recruited the finest scientific minds of the time: [[Robert Oppenheimer]], [[Niels Bohr]], [[Enrico Fermi]], [[Edward Teller]] and [[Richard Feynman]].
The general in charge of the project recruited the finest scientific minds of the time: [[Robert Oppenheimer]], [[Niels Bohr]], [[Enrico Fermi]], [[Edward Teller]] and [[Richard Feynman]].
==See Also==
==See also==
* [[Manhattan Project]]
* Manhattan Project
* [[Atomic bomb]]
* [[Atomic bomb]]
* [[Fat Man]] - [[Trinity (atomic explosion)]] and [[Nagasaki]]
* [[Fat Man]] - [[Trinity (atomic explosion)]] and [[Nagasaki]]