t Einstein's Long Island home to pay him a visit. Upon hearing the news that a uranium atom had been split he immediately wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. In this letter, Einstein explained the mass destructive powers of the bomb as well as what could happen if it got into Hitler's hands (Giovannitti). Two months later when Roosevelt actually read the letter he ordered a committee of scientists and military officers to meet Szilard and Teller to determine whether America was capable of building a nuclear bomb. In 1940, Szilard and Teller were granted a mere $6,000 to begin experiments in nuclear fission. The duo enlisted the help of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, Enrico Fermi (Giovannitti). Since much of the United States' early nuclear research had been conducted at New York's Columbia University, the federal government assigned the Manhattan District of the Army Corps of Engineers to construct the primary research and production facilities for the project. The "Manhattan Project" became the code name for the atomic-bomb development program.
             In 1942, the Manhattan Project was moved to Chicago. The laboratory was actually set up underneath the bleachers, of the University of Chicago, football stadium. The turning point of the project occurred in this lab underneath the bleachers, the first nuclear chain reaction had been created (Stein, R. Conrad). The reaction was tested on December 2, 1942, when they built a graphite nuclear reactor the size of a house. The experiment was conducted by pulling of a rod that was attached to the reactor. The meter on the counting machine continued to ascend until it reached the highest point. The rod was then pushed back in before the reactor exploded, which could of possibly taken out a large portion of Chicago. This experiment confirmed that an Atom bomb could be made. Szilard was recorded telling Fermi that, "This is a black day for mankind.
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