(Baonghean.vn) - The Manhattan Project was one of America's top secret projects with huge funding to research and manufacture atomic bombs.
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| It is estimated that about 600,000 people were recruited by the US government to participate in the once top secret Manhattan Project. As early as mid-1942, then US President Franklin Roosevelt established the Manhattan Project, with a huge budget at that time of 2 billion USD (at the current exchange rate, about 26 billion USD). |
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| The giant mushroom cloud created by the US dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. This was one of the atomic bombings carried out by the US as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. |
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| Haunting aerial view of the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, severely damaged after the US dropped two atomic bombs in 1945. |
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| Many Hanford workers involved in the Manhattan Project had no idea of the true purpose of their work. They only learned the truth after the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Many were shocked or depressed after learning the truth about their work. |
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| The iconic photo of the Manhattan Project's atomic bomb codenamed "Gadget." On July 16, 1945, the "Gadget" bomb was detonated in a test program codenamed "Trinity." The explosion demonstrated the devastating power of the atomic bomb. |
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| Here are some of the employees involved in the atomic bomb program at the request of the US military at the office in Los Alamos. This photo was taken while they were having a good time after work. |
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| This historic photo shows the American plane Enola Gay dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It is estimated that about 80,000 people in Hiroshima died in this event. |
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| Aerial photos show the giant crater created during the atomic bomb test codenamed "Trinity". |
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| Haunting images after the atomic bomb test codenamed "Trinity" in the Alamogordo desert, also in the state of New Mexico. A large area was terribly devastated, almost turned into a "dead land". |
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| This is a cylindrical container codenamed "Jumbo" measuring 7.6m long, 3.7m in diameter and weighing 214 tons. It was built by Babcock & Wilcox of Barberton, Ohio for the purpose of recovering radioactive materials during the Manhattan Project. |
Kim Ngoc
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