Background Information

     The Manhattan Project was the name given to the project of creating the atomic bomb that the United States would eventually drop on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August of 1945. The atomic bombs were created by multiple people including great physicists such as Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard and was under the supervision of Robert Oppenheimer, also a physicist. The Manhattan Project took six years to be complete and the outcome were two great atomic bombs with the code names of "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" that turned people's worlds upside down in a matter of seconds. The devastation that these bombs caused were immeasurable and almost indescribable.