The Manhatten Project

school; businessmen were leaving for another day at work. It seemed to be just a normal

day in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Then, at 8:15, a single B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay,

flew over the city and released the single most deadly weapon the world has ever seen, the

first atomic bomb. In a matter of seconds, 70,000-80,000 people lost their lives, and

many more died of radiation poisoning. Then on August 9, just three days later, in

Nagasaki, Japan, another B-29 flew over the city and released a second atomic bomb. In

this attack, about 40,000 people died, and a similar number of people were wounded. That

night, the Japanese emperor, Hirohito, said “The time has come, when we must bear the

unbearable” (Harris-Adler 430). That was the successful result of the secret government

installation called the Manhattan Project. The American victory over Japan in World War

II was a direct result of the government’s excellent tactics in keeping the installation a

secret, working through and conducting espionage against other countries, and recruiting

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