WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Manhattan Project
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Nagasaki Project
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Navajo Code Talkers Project
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D-day
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Detailed explanation-1: -Manhattan Project, U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Security was a way of life for the Manhattan Project. The goal was to keep the entire atomic bomb program secret from Germany and Japan. In this, Manhattan Project security officials succeeded. They also sought, however, to keep word of the atomic bomb from reaching the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -President Truman authorized the use of the atom bombs in an effort to bring about Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. In the days following the bombings Japan surrendered. The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs.