rought confidence to Roosevelt and he soon made the Manhattan Project his top priority. The project's focus was then changed from splitting atoms to the actual creation of the bomb. Roosevelt had now invested over $2,000,000,000 into the project (http://www.atomicarchive.com). The Manhattan Project's team consisted of the nation's smartest mathematicians, as well as its most highly trained and bright technical people. Twelve of the team members were actually Nobel Prize winners.
             Roosevelt now felt as though he was in a race with Hitler to create the Nuclear bomb, and he was very intent on winning this race. The evidence that Hitler had begun making the Atomic bomb came when the Germans took over a heavy water
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