GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb.”

Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs. Detonation of these first nuclear bombs signaled arrival of a frightening new Atomic Age.