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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the American-led wartime research and development programme that produced the first nuclear weapons during the Second World War.
Overview
Organized under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the enterprise coordinated over 130,000 personnel across key sites including Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford. Theoretical physicists, engineers, and military administrators collaborated to achieve controlled fission and mass isotopic separation. The project conducted the Trinity nuclear test in July 1945, after which the weapons Little Boy and Fat Man were deployed militarily against Japan in August 1945.
Why it matters
The successful development of nuclear weapons fundamentally reshaped modern geopolitics, military strategy, and international diplomacy. In addition to establishing post-war nuclear governance structures, the technical efforts stimulated early digital computing and numerical simulation methods.
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