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- Official name: Manhattan Engineer District
- Time Period: 1941 - 1946
- Started in response to Adolf Hitler's rise to power
- Administrative Director: Leslie Groves, United States Army
- Research Director: Robert Oppenheimer
- Achieved 3 successful detonations
- Three main project sites: Hanford Site; Oak Ridge, TN; Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Over 30 sites in total
- Trinity Test detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico
- "Little Boy" detonated over Hiroshima, Japan
- "Fat Man" detonated over Nagasaki, Japan
- Project costs neared $2 billion U.S. dollars
- Nuclear weapons based on concept of Nuclear fission
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The Manhattan Project was a top-secret operation during World War II to develop a nuclear (atomic) weapon. The project was conducted jointly by the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
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