Research and development for the Manhattan Project took place in a number of cities, including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and Los Alamos New Mexico. ... The Manhattan Project was such an important project because it not only ended World War II but it brought the world into the nuclear age and the new era of the cold war. ... " Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project and worked at a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. ... The efforts of all the facilities eventually culminated in a test of the first atomic bomb, which took place in Los Al...

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Hiroshima was such a pivotal moment in history because the United States of America did in fact decide to drop the first nuclear bomb upon a defiant Japan, on a City named Hiroshima Even before the war commenced in 1939 American scientists became increasingly concerned with Nazi Germany and their efforts on nuclear weapon research. ... Then on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico the Manhattan project had its very first successful drop. ... Truman then determined that the use of the atomic bomb would bring the war to a swift end. ... Even thought the war had fi...

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