COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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the Soviet Union
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the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first atomic bomb was built in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II under a top secret U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project . Los Alamos was approved as the site for the main atomic-bomb scientific laboratory on November 25, 1942, by Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves and physicist J.
Detailed explanation-2: -In August 1945, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were conducted by the United States against Japan at the close of that war, standing to date as the only use of nuclear weapons in hostilities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Oppenheimer. A theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer became involved early in the scientific research that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project. Under Oppenheimer’s direction, Manhattan Project workers constructed a plutonium bomb.