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recruited the finest scientific minds of the time: Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Richard Feynman.
* 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 term ''Manhattan Project'' was the code word for the project that developed the first nuclear weapons - "atomic bombs" as they were then called - in history. The formal code name was "Manhattan Engineering District," named after the Manhattan Engineer District of the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]]. Manhattan borough had at least 10 sites that supported the project, including the project's first headquarters located in a skyscraper across from City Hall.<ref>Robert S. Norris, "The Manhattan Project" (Black Dog & Leventhal). The book claims that spies stole some of the project's top secrets from Manhattan.</ref>
The term ''Manhattan Project'' was the code word for the project that developed the first nuclear weapons - "atomic bombs" as they were then called - in history. The formal code name was "Manhattan Engineering District," named after the Manhattan Engineer District of the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]]. Manhattan borough had at least 10 sites that supported the project, including the project's first headquarters located in a skyscraper across from City Hall.<ref>Robert S. Norris, "The Manhattan Project" (Black Dog & Leventhal). The book claims that spies stole some of the project's top secrets from Manhattan.</ref>