Just before the beginning of World War II on August 2, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists notified Roosevelt of the rising efforts in Nazi Germany to purify Uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb (Bellis). It was only shortly after when the United States Government began to work on "the Manhattan Engineer District" otherwise known as "the Manhattan Project" (Sherrow).
For the next six years it was up to physicist Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer and his research crew of the world's top scientists, doctors and researchers "to expedite research to produce a viable atomic bomb" (Bellis). On July 16, 1945, the first successful atomic explosion was carried out near Alamagordo, New Mexico (Bellis). This $2 billion operation (Sherrow), created a new war tactic, known as atomic warfare. …
