Secret City proketa Manhattan (28 photos)

Manhattan Project "(Eng. Manhattan Project) - the code name for the US program to develop nuclear weapons, which began on 17 September 1943. Before this research was carried out in the "Uranium Committee» (S-1 Uranium Committee, 1939). The project involved scientists from the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Canada.



The project has created three atomic bombs: plutonium "Trinity" (exploded at the first nuclear test), uranium "The Kid" (dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945) and plutonium "Fat Man "(dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945).



The project is headed by the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves.



Photographer Ed Westcott (only authorized photographer) took pictures of secret in the 40 years the city of Oak Ridge, where the Americans forged nuclear shield their state.