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Manhattan Project

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Leslie Groves, military director

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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


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