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-Started before WWII
-Run by Robert Oppenheimer
-Developed three bombs before 1945: Trinity, Little Boy, and then Fat Boy
-Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima
-Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki
-100,000 people worked on this project
-Run by Robert Oppenheimer
-Developed three bombs before 1945: Trinity, Little Boy, and then Fat Boy
-Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima
-Fat Man was dropped over Nagasaki
-100,000 people worked on this project
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Summary
The Americans plan to develop nuclear weapons was run by Robert Oppenheimer. The team developed three bombs in 1945 which consisted of "Trinity," "Little Boy" and "Fat Man." "Trinity" was the test bomb they dropped in New Mexico. "Little Boy" was a uranium bomb that was droppes on Hiroshima. "Fat Man" was a plutonium bomb droppes on Nagasaki.