Tate ClemMrs. BrosiusEnglish Hr. 411 April 2014Manhattan ProjectThe nuclear bomb would have changed the course of the war, but required extreme measures from a scientific, logistical and financial point of view ("Manhattan Project"). Before the Manhattan Project, the United States did not value scientific research and discovery (Arsenault 2). Los Alamos, the site of the Manhattan Project, provided insulation for scientists to work. The main purpose of the Manhattans Project was to make the nuclear bomb to end World War II, but it ran from 1938 to 1945 and succeeded in creating two usable nuclear bombs. Enrico Fermi was credited with creating the world's first fission reaction in 1934 (Lusted). In 1938 - 1939, two German chemists bombed the nucleus of a uranium atom and formed barium, achieved atomic fission, but did not realize what they had accomplished (“Manhattan Project” 697 and Lusted). Frisch and Rudolf Peirls published in 1940 that an atomic bomb uses a critical amount of uranium (Cowan). The push to create nuclear weapons began, laboratory equipment, space to work, and time became essential for the United States (Arsenault 1). J. Robert Oppenheimer chose the location of the Manhattan Project, the Los Alamos Ranch School (Reith). A quote from Oppenheimer: “There are no secrets in the natural world. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men." In January 1943, the U.S. government purchased the Los Alamos Ranch School and 54,000 acres of Forest Service land for $440,000. Hundreds of technicians and workers came to Los Alamos to build additional structures, run offices, teach children, and keep the city growing. The homes, hastily built in Los Alamos, lacked luxury and privacy. Halfway through... Project Tan has had positive, if questionable, results such as energy sources and medical treatments. It used nuclear energy for reactors, but created nuclear waste, which could kill or cause cancer (Rossinow). Nuclear energy has played a role in the medical field for PET scans and radiation therapy for some types of cancer. Radiation for the medical field uses low radiation so that people do not die from radiation poisoning (Arsenault 2). The Manhattan Project had deadly effects, at such a high cost. From 1938 to 1945 the Manhattan Project lasted and developed nuclear warfare and energy devices. Even today, nuclear reactors are improving and nuclear medicine offers new ways to help people, and the fear of nuclear war remains. Japan is still horrified by the bombings. Russia and America still have strong development of nuclear energy compared to other countries.