The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project

On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola

Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the

first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the

immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a

success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and

military scientific brain power—brilliant, intense, and young, the

people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an

isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design

and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious

controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became

interested in this topic because of my interest in science and

history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently

studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class. The Hiroshima and

Nagasaki bombings were always taught to me with some opinion, and I

always wanted to know the bomb itself and the unbiased effects that it

had. This I-search was a great opportunity for me to actually fulfill

my interest.

The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort

during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately

named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of

Engineers, because much of the early research was done in New York

City (Badash 238). Sp...

The Manhattan Project

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