What Was the Manhattan Project?
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- The Manhattan Project was one of history’s most secretive and consequential endeavors, leading to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Sparked by fears that Nazi Germany was developing nuclear weapons, the project brought together top scientists like Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi to pioneer groundbreaking nuclear science.
After years of intensive research and development, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, bringing an end to the war but with catastrophic human tolls.
Beyond its devastation, the project’s legacy shaped global politics, sparked the nuclear age, and fueled innovations in medicine, energy, and space exploration. But how did such a massive and secretive operation succeed?
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Script Writer:
August Moon
Collaborator:
Teddy Burkhardt
Video Editor:
Nick Pane
Voiceover:
Arianna Fox
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I visited Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in the late 1980’s as part of a national team reviewing their consideration as a environmental pollution source. We looked at all the various laboratory operations to evaluate the sufficiency of their quality controls because each DOE laboratory was considering growing their own environmental testing capabilities. One fact that struck the evaluation team was how disparate each individual laboratory was… each was its one entity even though they sat side by side. Pesticides vs volatiles vs metals labs etc. and the only lab officially designated as environmental was outside the secure perimeter. They told us years before they parked their cars by backing them into the parking spaces to make a quick escape if needed. ORNL was built there in the hills to contain any accidental nuclear blast. Unless I got that story wrong.That same year, I happened to take a RTW trip visiting a friend in Hiroshima and saw the Peace Museum there… a surreal experience.
Good article but you left out how many Japanese and American lives were saved by not having to invade Japan.
Me for one. My father was on Okinawa getting ready for the Japan invasion. He cried that he would live.
Another critical fact is that Japan was told / warened that we would drop the nuclear bomb and that it would flatten the city, and they refused to surrender. Then, after Hiroshima's devastation, they were warned yet again and given the opportunity to surrender but instead chose to let their people be decimated! They could have avoided the bombs, and chose not to. Additionally, it doesn't mention or show the prison camps, and abuse of allied soldiers, the Phillipine women children and soldiers, the death march to Bataan, etc. I'm sick of the remembrance each year of how the U.S. did this terrible thing to Japan without putting forth all the facts!
If the brutal, high life count, battles fought on the islands defending Japan are any indication, them my guess is, as u pointed out, many more lives on both sides would have been lost in a long drawn out battle.
100k
3 million japanese were mobilized for the defense
allied planners estimated 1 million casualties were likely
so roughly 4 million
One thing that isn't mentioned in this video is where the uranium was extracted. I know, because I lived there after I was born. The town that no longer exists, Uravan!!! I only found out about this in my 60's when my mother finally shared with me about where we lived. I don't have any memories about living there, but I did look up this town and it's history. The Manhattan project could have never happened if towns like this didn't exist. It's probably one of the least know aspects of the whole project. The fact that my father was involved in this was a mind blower for me.
Wow I bet that made you look at your parents & the people.. the town.. in a whole new way ❤
Oh, I hadn't heard of that! I knew some of the uranium for the testing and the bomb development came from Colorado (most of it came from a mine in the Congo, though). I've taken students out to Rifle, off of I70, to explore the site where the uranium was processed and stored (there's still some uranium mineral in the groundwater and the site has been used to explore the geochemistry of uranium groundwater contamination), but I didn't know there had been a town where the mining of the uranium had taken place that is now abandoned. I might have to drive out there and check it out. I love adding in sites of geological and historical interest on road trips!
Thank you so much for this important disclosure.
The curious in me wants to know where you lived before you were born?
@@taralewis6661 Yes, it made realize that my existence doesn't depend on where I'm from. It comes from the people I'm surrounded by in my everyday life.
The cost of invading Japan would have also had an incalculable human cost. There was no good solution to stop a hegemonic dictator willing to burn his country to the ground before giving up.
My papa called this project something else. He also spoke of another project off cape Canaveral. And he said when it was done men were found welded into the ship. Many people say this last project is a conspiracy theory. But my papa was there. Online says they used a plane for the radar project. The old man said they used a ship. He called it project rainbow but online says it is the Philadelphia experiment. I hate watching these things. They lie
No mention of WNY? Both my parents worked there. Later became Hooker Chemical. Remember Love Canal?
Yes
atomic weapons development signified humans of earth having gone corrupt, like bad bacteria annihilating the universe around us. paranoia, psychosis, mass hysteria, unimaginable horrors unravel through time :* SOS earth
I was quite disappointed visiting Oak Ridge around 2022. I went, hoping to see large amounts of items relating to the work performed there in the 40s, but apparently, political correctness has all but erased any easily visible public information. There is little to no emphasis today on what took place there 60 years ago. It was almost entirely a big waste of time. :(
Yes… many DOE lab sites made the magical transformation into environmental clean-up sites; some completely disappeared. The history and evolution of all DOE sites would be an interesting subject. I had heard Los Alamos was not even on a US map until the 1960’s… if I got that story right?
You apparently didn't do a very good job of investigating. I have lived near Oak Ridge for most of my life, and there are references to and sites devoted to its Manhattan history everywhere. Has nothing to do with political correctness. Many sites have had to be demolished (like K-25) due the huge amounts of dangerous radioactive wastes in the area.
@@dornkile5616 You're right! I just drove there from Charlotte unannounced, thinking the sites would just jump out of the woodwork. But after I found what I thought might be "the place to go", there was nearly nothing there, and the local staff at the site I DID end up at certainly was no help in trying to discover more. They definitively were not in agreement with your perspective whatsoever, and offered little to no insight on anything that would be of any significant public interest.
Sorry that I cannot recall the name of the joint where I visited that had an extremely modest mention of the past as it was several years ago, as previously mentioned.
Ha! You ought to offer a tour site, knowing the secrets of the area that peeps like me would want to see. :)