Manhattan Project Research Paper

During World War II, the Manhattan Project was in charge of building the atomic bomb for the U.S., the atomic bomb was made with the idea of peace, which meant that it was supposed to be the most powerful bomb that would end every war. The Manhattan project started after the “the Einstein- Szilárd letter” to President Roosevelt (Kelly 42-44). This letter was called the “Einstein-Szilard” because it was written by Leó Szilárd, but it was signed and sent by Albert Einstein. After this, President Roosevelt decides that the best idea was to make an American nuclear energy program, which was called the Manhattan Project. On August 2, 1939 Albert Einstein (a theoretical physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize) sent a letter to President Roosevelt. I the letter Szilard and Einstein explained that there was a new source of energy, based on Uranium, a radioactive and unstable element. However, the main point of this new

project, whose goal was to build the atomic bomb, a bomb made of uranium, they had to find how to reach critical mass, this was the definitive weapon, the bomb needed to end all the wars, nevertheless, the Manhattan Project went through a lot of problems, the Manhattan project economic problems because of the expensive machinery and the many workers, without leaving out the fact that it didn’t produce an money, also, it had moral problems because after building the atomic bomb and testing it, the scientists started to feel scared of the power of their own creation, but, still they accomplished their goal of making the atomic bomb. A bomb that releases a crazy amount of energy in just a second, led by a chain reaction that starts with the division of an atom. The Atomic Bomb certainly ended with the war. It started in 1942 thanks to the Einstein-Szilard letter. after the war ended, there was no point in having a bomb program during peacetime, so the U.S. decides to close the Manhattan project in