Manhattan Project
You have asked me to provide you with a summary/ analysis of the government project nicknamed the Manhattan Project. I have reviewed thoroughly all of the pertinent literature and documentation pertaining to the formation and continuing research and development of the Manhattan Project. I have enclosed an overview of all necessary information for which you should be familiar. However, since the project is ongoing and the final product incomplete as of today, the outcome of the most secretive project is as yet unclear. The Manhattan Project is the code name of the attempt to produce an atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corp of Engineers, because much of the early research was done in New York City. The Manhattan Project is run by Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, who is responsible to a Military Policy Committee chaired by Dr. Vannevar Bush (Conant, pg. 1). I feel it necessary to take you through the developments in atomic research which led to the need for such an immense undertaking of time and money. In December of 1938, scientists in Germ
What the US has bought for that sum is, should the project be successful, the decision whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on a Japanese city, in which the estimated deaths will be in the tens of thousands, including both military and civilian. Lawrence's invention, the Cyclotron. One city is Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the K-25 plant (the largest factory in the world) produces multiple giant Calutrons. On September 17, 1942, General Groves was chosen to lead the project. In 1943, General Groves decided that the B-29 would be the delivery plane. Many of them are Nobel Prize winners, so the most brilliant minds in the world were brought in and have been working for the last few years to create the atomic bomb. Although the original purpose of the Manhattan Project was to beat the Nazis in the race for the bomb, General Groves now needs to complete the project before Japan loses or surrenders. Construction of a 100 gram/ day centrifuge plant to be completed by January 1944 *The estimated cost of construction was $38 million. At this point, no one yet knew if the bomb was even possible. Lawrence, Neils Bohr, and Enrico Fermi.
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