COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Manhattan Transfer
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Manheim Steamroller
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Manhattan Project
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Super Sneaky Project
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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: -General Leslie R. Groves, who was appointed to head the project, decided to follow the custom of naming Corps of Engineers districts for the city in which they are located. The atomic bomb project thus became known as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), or Manhattan Project for short.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ultimately, Groves approved three locations for this new clandestine project: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. These locations were not chosen at random; each had to meet special requirements for the Manhattan Project to ultimately succeed.
Detailed explanation-4: -James C. Marshall was selected to head the project. Soon an office in New York City was opened, and in August the project was officially given the name Manhattan Engineer District-hence Manhattan Project, the name by which this effort would be known ever afterward.