The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Fusion The atom bomb was created in the summer of 1945. It was created under the name "Manhattan Project" as to retain secrecy. Only a dozen trusted scientist knew about the project; J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont's Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg's Percival Keith, MIT's Vannevar Bush, Harvard's James B. Conant, and Berkeley's Ernest O. Lawrence. The atom bomb changed the world in multiple ways. It led to the creation of "artificial radioactivity". Artificial radioactivity is when radioactivity has been produced through the bombardment of naturally occuring isotopes by subatomic particles or by a high level of x-rays or gamma rays. It led to the end of World War II. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
