The Manhattan Project was a government program developed by the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during WW2 to research and build the first Weapon of Mass Destruction, The Atomic Bomb. To try and understand how man was able to harness the power of the atom, we're discussing how something so powerful could even be discovered and how that discovery was almost immediately weaponized. 

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of if not THE key figured in successfully building the devices that would be used to turn two Japanese cites to ash and an Empire to it's knees. He was a brilliant student of science, the arts, and religion. A man almost immediately conflicted with his greatest invention who felt the blood of thousands on his hands. 

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