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The Manhattan Project
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was the code name for the US effort during World War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer
District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United States during World War II, started by
refu .... Middle of paper
.... uranium (U-
235) or the common isotope (U-238) could be used. They learned that each
fission releases a few neutrons. A chain reaction, therefore, was
theoretically possible, if not too many neutrons escaped from the mass or
were captured by impurities.
In 1942 General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he
immediately purchased a site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for facilities to
separate the necessary uranium-235 from the much more ....
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