The Manhattan Project

This is an overview of the Manhattan Project, including a timeline covering major developments in the Project, the famous physicists who worked on it, a brief discussion of the bomb itself and the physics behind it, and the impact of the Project on the world.

This website is Victoria Nelson's submission to Dr. Newman's PHYS F211X class.

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