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The Manhattan Project In Color

The Manhattan Project In Colour

In the race to end World War II, the brightest scientific minds in America were called to work on the Manhattan Project. Fearing the Nazis would develop the atomic bomb first, America instigated a huge engineering project led by General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer. Once the first bomb had been tested in July 1945, it was inevitable it would be used against Japan with devastating results.

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