Manhattan+Project

By: Hayden
=== Two German scientists discovered the physics behind the atomic bomb as early as 1938. they split a uranium atom and caused a chain reaction of huge potential power. after U.S. entered the war in 1941, an international team of scientists- many having fled fro Nazi Germany- worked to turn this discovery into a bomb. the Manhattan Project, as it was known, was based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and led by nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer. by July 1945, the team had developed three bombs. the first was tested successfully over the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. ===