#OnThisDate August 13, 1942 - Birth of the Atomic Age

The United States Took A Monumental Step In The Course Of World War II By Officially Launching The Manhattan Project, A Top-Secret Initiative Aimed At Developing The World’s First Nuclear Weapons.

Spearheaded By Brigadier General Leslie Groves And Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Project Was Centered In Los Alamos, New Mexico, With Key Research Also Conducted At Sites In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, And Hanford, Washington.

The Project Brought Together Some Of The Greatest Scientific Minds Of The Era, Including Enrico Fermi And Richard Feynman, With The Ambitious Goal Of Creating A Weapon Capable Of Ending The War.

The Success Of This Project Culminated In The Bombings Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki In 1945, Marking The Dawn Of The Nuclear Age.

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