Roosevelt, received a letter form Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, stating that his field of physics had opened up a new possibility for extremely powerful bombs, and that the Germans were currently in the process of trying to build one. ...

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1 What is an atomic bomb? The answer is a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy resulting from the splitting of nuclei of a heavy chemical element by neutrons in a very rapid chain reaction. The Manhattan Project produced "Little Man" and "Fat Man", two ...

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