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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 ... [https://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]].