Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. Never before had one country demonstrated such superior technology, such superior power. Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, and never before had the United States fully showed the world the extent of its abilities. However, the results of the Manhattan Project are a source for endless controversy. The question of necessity to cause such widespread murder remains a foundation for constant discussion.
The straight up facts of the Manhattan Project are well known. The Manhattan Project was the American effort to harness the power of atoms and apply it to a modern war effort, through a chain reaction of Uranium 235 isotopes (and later Plutonium). The Manhattan Project was sprung in October of 1939, after Einstein sent a letter to Roosevelt, outlining the possibility that atoms could be used for excessive amounts of energy, and he further outlined the mention of a bomb. As written by Einstein:.
This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable - though much less certain - that extremely powerful bombs of a new type, may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.
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The Manhattan Project eventually skyrocketed into a two billion dollar program that was always funded by the United States government. It was pushed forward extremely quickly; due to the fear that the Germans, had, at the time, also been researching atomic weapons, and the American government felt that they were very far behind. The Manhattan Project was headed by Major General Leslie Groves, in close partnership with J.