1. Atomic Bomb and the Manhattan Project
... ;Manhattan Project." Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project and worked at a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. This laboratory was responsible for actually designing the bomb. The materials for the project were gathered and assembled at a number of facilities in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The workers at these facilities were never told ... , a full-scale invasion of the Japanese mainland islands would be necessary. The allied military leaders estimated extremely high casualties in the event of the invasion. On August 6, 1945 the ...
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