Atomic Bomb

In 1939 the German born Albert Einstein had informed President Roosevelt about the possibility of creating a powerful bomb. It would produce an extremely powerful explosion by the splitting of an atom. Einstein and other scientists feared that Germany might develop such a bomb first. In 1942, the United States set up a secret project called the Manhattan Project to develop the first Atomic Bomb. The first test explosion of the Atomic Bomb occurred in the New …

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