What was the Manhattan Project?

The Project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce US nuclear weapon. they feared that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York.

The Manhatten project was the effort by the United States government to develop the first atomic bomb during the second world war, starting in 1942. The project involved the efforts of many famous physicists, notably Oppenheimer, Einstein, and Feynman and took place at the government research centre in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

The project was ultimately successful in 1945, and resulted in the creation of the first two deployed nuclear weapons: Fat Man and Little Boy.

Assistance on the project was provided by the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom.