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Manhattan Project (2019)

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The Manhattan Project was the Anglo-American effort to build nuclear weapons during World War II. It is commonly regarded as one of the most successful, if controversial, mega-projects of the 20th century, bringing together scientific expertise, industrial production, and military coordination to create an entirely new industry, and new form of weaponry, in an unusually compressed timescale. Within the literature of the history of science and technology, the Manhattan Project has been examined from a number of different vantage points, often centering on the role of the thousands of academic scientists in hundreds of centers who participated in the weaponization of a new scientific discovery to facilitate the mass slaughter of civilians, but also portraying the project as a prototype of future military-industrial-academic collaborations. (from the article)

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Authors & Contributors
Wellerstein, Alex
Kelly, Cynthia C.
Cioci, Vincenzo
Ruhl, Christian P.
Salio, Giovanni
West, Nigel
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Physics
Manhattan Project
Science and war; science and the military
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
World War II
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Ohio (U.S.)
Switzerland
Soviet Union
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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