(the) Manhattan Project

(the) Manhattan Project
the secret US project to develop the atom bomb, begun in 1942. It involved a team of scientists led by J Robert Oppenheimer, first at Oak Ridge, ↑Tennessee, and later at ↑Los Alamos, ↑New Mexico, where the bomb was built. The first bomb was exploded as a test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945.

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