Atomic Bomb

    The invention of the atomic bomb started in 1939 and the project ended in 1945. The government spent over 2 billion dollars in the Manhattan Project, as it was known, and was able to take revenge for what Japan have done to American’s Pearl Harbor.

    Although Albert Einstein did not participate in the project, he sent a letter to President Roosevelt explaining to him the possibility for an atomic bomb that the German were researching on. President Roosevelt was intrigued and formed a group of scientists to build an atomic bomb. The laboratory was in Los Alamos and Robert Oppenheimer was appointed as the leader. Through many trail and errors, the first successful atomic bomb “Little Boy” was built and landed on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

    The atomic bomb destroyed everything in its radar. Land was flattened and over 150,000 people were killed. Climate was altered and radiation from the atomic bomb left Japan a mark of trouble ahead.