Manhattan Project

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Probably the most ambitious development of a nuclear weapon, which was generally carried out in the commonwealth of several countries. Most of the development work was carried out at Columbia University in Manhattan.

A prominent General Leslie Groves was appointed head of the military, but for the scientific part they decided to turn to a scientist from the University of California, Robert Oppenheimer.

These two leaders were completely different from each other in character, but this did not prevent them from achieving success on the project. The test site was a location in the New Mexico desert.

This place was attractive enough from all sides and fit Oppenheimer's criteria. He wanted it to be far from the sea, sparsely populated, with good transport links and the opportunity not only to work, but also to relax, the desert was perfect

The next charge was in an elongated shell with uranium 235 inside. He was taken on the ship Indianapolis to the territory of the Tinian air base. The charge was called "Kid" and soon he made the Japanese city of Hiroshima shudder.

The last charge was the so-called Fat Man. However, the Fat Man caused less damage than the Kid, since the port of Nagasaki was surrounded by hills.

Now you are a fairly savvy person in terms of the Manhattan project, and how many more such projects are kept in history, one can only guess.

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Uranium-235 was mined not far from the site. Plutonium was obtained in a nuclear reactor on the territory of Washington. In general, about 125 thousand people took part in this large-scale project.

Despite such a large number of participants, secrecy was observed by all and not a single word even got into the allied countries.

In 1945, in the hot summer, plutonium hemispheres were delivered to the test site. The secrecy was so great that the crew of the car that delivered the bomb to the test site did not even know what they were transporting.

The charge was detonated and impressed its creators with incredible power

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