The Manhattan Project
On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola
Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the
first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the
immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a
success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and
military scientific brain power--brilliant, intense, and young, the
people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an
isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design
and build the bomb that would end World…
