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Manhattan Project
- American plan to develop nuclear weapons
- Run by Robert Oppenheimer
- Developed three bombs in 1945 “Trinity”, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”
- “Little Boy” a uranium bomb was detonated over Hiroshima
- “Fat Man” a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
The Manhattan Project was the project developed in New Mexico, with the goal of developing nuclear weapons of mass destruction.