Notes
-Started before WWII
-Run by Robert Oppenheimer
-Developed three bombs before 1945: Trinity, Little Boy, and then Fat Boy
-Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima
-Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki
-100,000 people worked on this project
-Started before WWII
-Run by Robert Oppenheimer
-Developed three bombs before 1945: Trinity, Little Boy, and then Fat Boy
-Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima
-Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki
-100,000 people worked on this project
Summary
The Manhattan project extended throughout the war and had huge implications once the bombs were perfected because of the power one nation had within a singular weapon.
Quotes
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
Subjunctive Question
How would the results of the war have been different if Jewish scientist hadn't been forced to leave Germany?
The Manhattan project extended throughout the war and had huge implications once the bombs were perfected because of the power one nation had within a singular weapon.
Quotes
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
Subjunctive Question
How would the results of the war have been different if Jewish scientist hadn't been forced to leave Germany?