The True Heroes Of World War II - 1853 Words

Scientists of the Manhattan Project: The True Heroes of World War II The morning of August 15, 1945, Americans rejoiced as World War II came to an end after Japan had been bombed twice by atomic bombs which completely decimated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most people know this would be the only nuclear attack ever made in history, but what people do not know would be who created these nuclear weapons, and how they created them. The Manhattan Project, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, included the most brilliant scientists of all time. The President created this project because he obtained information that Germany could possibly create a nuclear weapon. Essentially, this project began working on the idea because the†¦show more content†¦Without this team, America would not have survived if the Germans ever actually created the atomic bomb, and Roosevelt knew that. The President created this team because of an issue that had been brought up to him one month before. Albert Einstein (a future scientist to work on the Manhatta n Project) sent a letter explaining that German scientists had discovered something unimaginable. It stated: In the course of the last four months it has been made probable--through the work of Joliot in France as well as Fermi and Szilard in America--that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of Uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future. (Einstein) Albert Einstein knew that this could be possible and knew that German scientists had started on experimenting with the newly found chain reaction in Uranium ore. This shows that Einstein knew of the dangers of nuclear weapons in the near future and he openly wanted to help the United States succeed in liberation of the Nazi troops in Europe. Einstein highly recommended Roosevelt to speed up the experimentation of nuclear. This proves that without the knowledge of Einstein, Germany would surpass the United States in technological warfare. Roosevelt did not want to fall behind Germany and be