Manhattanprosjektet
Manhattanprosjektet was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first atomic bombs. Led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada, the project was initiated in response to fears that Nazi Germany was developing nuclear weapons. The project officially began in 1942 and was codenamed after the Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which initially oversaw the effort.
The project's primary objective was to harness nuclear fission to create a weapon of unprecedented destructive
The scientific leadership at Los Alamos was under the direction of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project
The first successful test of an atomic bomb, codenamed "Trinity," occurred in July 1945 in New Mexico.