Adolf Hitler's Assassination Research Paper

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It took millions of lives to end a war, started by one of the most evilness persons: Adolf Hitler, that even with his decease, it could not be stop until months after. It is a shame that this war ended with the life of an enormous amount of people, but the worst part is that the majority of them were innocent. Developed in Los Alamos, New Mexico under the Manhattan Project (led by the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada), the nuclear weapons were designed by American Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Technicians and scientists worked on the creation of the atomic bombs for almost three years, until its first detonation on July 16, 1945, in the Jordana del Muerto desert in New Mexico. In preparation,

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