Manhatten Project
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The Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was born into a "World in Crisis". The terrible Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany, and Italian armies sought control in Europe. "In the summer of 1939 war broke out in Europe. Within a year German and Italian armies controlled a large part of the continent[Europe]". Japanese forces were also fighting to attain control in the large continent of Asia. In 1938, Enrico Fermi, a German scientist, discovered nuclear fission. Many scientist feared that Germany and worse, Hitler, would obtain the power of a nuclear bomb. "With such a powerful weapon, she [Germany] would be able to win the war and become the most powerful state in the world." Many scientist, some refugees from Germany and Italy, feared Germany would build the first atomic bomb. They convinced president Franklin D...