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Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director
Leslie Groves, military director
Nuclear Weapons
World War II, the need to build an atom bomb before Germany
authorization by President Roosevelt
construction of nuclear plants
Doctor Atomic, opera inspired by the Manhattan Project
facility locations
impact on science education in the U.S.
later development of hydrogen bomb
pictures related to the Manhattan Project
scientists and engineers
successor agency
Hydrogen Bomb
Hydrogen Bomb, also known as H-bomb or thermonuclear bomb, nuclear weapon in which a thermonuclear fusion reaction takes place among heavy isotopes of...
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