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The Manhattan Project

In Our Time: Science

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The Manhattan Project

The average age of the scientists building the bomb was about 28. They were like graduate students and newpo stocks. Franclos: The project stands as an example of how kind of a model of how an effort to address an existential threat can be effectively organized and carried out.

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