The Manhatten Project was a basically a codename for an atomic bomb project in Manhatten, New York. Some great scientists like Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, J. Robert Openheimer, and Harold Urey (and many others), put their minds together to create this bomb. One reason for creating the atomic bomb was the fear that Germany would be making one and bombing them during WWII.
One if the biggest issues of the 20th century was the decision to drop the bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some historians say that with the atomic bomb it shortened the war and prevented many deaths of Americans. The actual explosion of the bomb was devastating, but the after affects of it were just as bad. A lot of people that survived the blast, later died of radiation poisoning. Some survivors that did not die had problems such as severe burns, sicknesses with vommiting and fatigue, and many other issues.
In WWII, the atomic bomb that was made as the "Manhatten Project", was used in the Hiroshima bombing. It was the first deployed atomic bomb to be used in Japan.
On August 6th, 1945, the bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the city of Hiroshima. It initially killed 90% of the city and there was immediately 80,000 people killed. And there was thousands more to die days later from after shock of like radiation exposure.
I think both the topics I had were interesting and they went along with each other. I wonder how much different the war would have been without the making of the atomic bomb. I think it's a good thing that they were made!
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Good but brief overall.