Benefits Of The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret scientific project to create the first atomic bomb. Through research, it indicates that although the scientific discoveries from this project had negative consequences, the benefits far outweighed them. There is no question that this event was a frontier that changed the course of human society.

The Manhattan Project brought about an end to World War II, helped establish the might and power of the United States, and fostered the development of a new energy source.

World War II took place from 1939 to 1945 and was fought between the "Allies" (U.S., Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and China) and the "Axis" (Germany, Japan, and Italy). It resulted in the most deaths of any war in history estimated at 85

Ultimately, around 150,000 people worked on the project stationed at different locations. The main locations were Los Alamos, NM; Hanford, WA; and Oak Ridge, TN.

Everyone working on the project, besides the top scientists and government officials, were kept in the dark about its main goals. Little did they know they were working on a new technology that would change the course of the war, and history.

Los Alamos

Los Alamos, referred to as Project Y, was one of the main sites where most of the research and construction of the bomb was conducted. Thousands of project workers, along with their families, lived there continuing their normal lives as their own separate society.

The director of Los Alamos was J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist often referred to as "the father of the atomic bomb." He gathered more than 3,000 of the top minds in physics to help. In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson granted him the Enrico Fermi Award, a prize for the top researcher in atomic energy science.

This project took many years to accomplish its goal with the explosion succeeding on July-16-1945.

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would still have been such a global superpower, but I don't believe that to be true. The discovery of nuclear weapons demonstrated the power of the U.S. scientific community, and asserted their dominance against other countries.

Even to this day, other countries look to the U.S. for military assistance. Without the Manhattan Project's discoveries which provided access to advanced weapons, the U.S. wouldn't be as intimidating to the rest of the world as it is today.

Unlike energy made from coal, nuclear energy is much more environmentally friendly, renewable, and sustainable, and it currently provides the U.S. with approximately 20% of its electricity supply. With the effects of global warming, it's easy to see that all countries should be moving toward green energy such as nuclear and increasing this percentage substantially and the U.S. should be leading the rest of the world in this effort.

Scientific discoveries in the Manhattan Project also made the U.S. a trailblazer in nuclear energy advancements, and other countries looked to them for guidance in their energy