HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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to create an international peacekeeping organization
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top secret government project to develop the atomic bomb
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to provide benefits to World War II veterans
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to help workers who lost their jobs when the was ended
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Detailed explanation-1: -Manhattan Project, U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. American scientists, many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe, took steps in 1939 to organize a project to exploit the newly recognized fission process for military purposes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s-and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
Detailed explanation-4: -Project Y was the designation for the top-secret design and production of the atomic bombs for the Manhattan Project. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project chose Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, to lead Project Y, which is today better known as Los Alamos.
Detailed explanation-5: -Background Information: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) traces its origins to World War II and the Manhattan Project effort to build the first atomic bomb.