“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” That’s what the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, recalled when he watched the first ever test of the atomic bomb. Many scientists who made the atomic bomb were against using it because of the amount of destruction they could cause. I’m going to explain to you what caused the start of the Manhattan Project, why it is called the Manhattan Project, the goals of the project, who were the people in charge, and why they dropped the bomb on Japan. How did the Manhattan Project start? Many scientists from Europe that were against Germany in World War II fled to the United States to inform our leaders that Germany was working on how to split an uranium atom. With that process a nuclear
