THe Manhattan project
•American plan to develop nuclear weapons
•Run by Robert Oppenheimer
•Developed three bombs in 1945 “Trinity”, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
•“Little Boy” a uranium bomb was detonated over Hiroshima
•“Fat Man” a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
•Run by Robert Oppenheimer
•Developed three bombs in 1945 “Trinity”, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
•“Little Boy” a uranium bomb was detonated over Hiroshima
•“Fat Man” a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development program by the United States with the United Kingdom and Canada that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. Three bombs were created The fat man the little boy and Trinity.
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