Lead by William S. Parsons, the Manhattan Project focused on the “design and assembly of [the Atomic] bomb” 1. With over 200,00 people involved, it was, and still is, one of the largest grand-scale secret operations in the history of the world. Those involved “nursed the bomb, coaxed it, and lavished attention on it” and were “intimately familiar with every bolt, fuse, and wire”2. The unfortunate fact is that each member of the Manhattan Project were acutely aware that they were creating a weapon that would rend entire cities asunder. After the scientists involved had finished creating the bomb, they were left with the question of how to employ it. While many ideas were discussed, it was ultimately decided to simply drop it on the cities with pure malice. However, there was one more problem to attend to before Truman could order this; determining the strength of their new
Lead by William S. Parsons, the Manhattan Project focused on the “design and assembly of [the Atomic] bomb” 1. With over 200,00 people involved, it was, and still is, one of the largest grand-scale secret operations in the history of the world. Those involved “nursed the bomb, coaxed it, and lavished attention on it” and were “intimately familiar with every bolt, fuse, and wire”2. The unfortunate fact is that each member of the Manhattan Project were acutely aware that they were creating a weapon that would rend entire cities asunder. After the scientists involved had finished creating the bomb, they were left with the question of how to employ it. While many ideas were discussed, it was ultimately decided to simply drop it on the cities with pure malice. However, there was one more problem to attend to before Truman could order this; determining the strength of their new