Oppenheimer – Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 16th July 1947
The Manhattan Project was all about the research and development of the nuclear bomb , and was years in the making, from 1942 -1947 during the last years of the Second World War.
It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. Nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Laboratory that designed the bombs.
J Robert Oppenheimer – also known as the “father of the atomic bomb “.
There was much secrecy about the project as it was feared that the details would get into the wrong hands.
Nuclear Weapons are now even more destructive now than the ones built in 1947 – ThermoNuclear Weapons ( Hydrogen Bombs ).