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The Manhattan Project

In Our Time: Science

CHAPTER

The First Atom Bomb

President truman knew he had an enormously powerful weapon that might shock the japanese into ending the war. General groves worried about testifying before congress and then decided not to use it. He put tremendous pressure, as cameron was just saying, on the scientists and technicians at las alamos and elsewhere to deliver at least two shortly after the trinity test in 19 forty five. That could be called the first atom bomb.

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