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The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was also one of those important things about World War II. The Japanese saw the United States as a threat to them. So the Japanese took advantage of World War II and responded to the American threat by planning a sneak attack when they bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The most and first thing of the Manhattan Project was finding out the good source of fuel for the bombs. Neils Bohr said Uranium-235 (U-235) was unstable and causes a chain reaction and that was good for the bombs. The second struggle was to get the fission chain reaction for the power of the atomic bomb. Yet Bohr's adventure was only beginning. Upon arriving in Great Britain he was given direct access to high level advisors in the British government, who informed him of the Manhattan Project. Bohr was surprised; he later wrote: "...it was a revelation to me to learn...about the advanced stage the work had already reached" (J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, Box 34, Bohr memorandum to President Roosevelt, July 3rd, 1944, Library of Congress).
Bohr and his son Aage were soon asked to join the Manhattan Project. They arrived in the U.S. on Dec. 6, 1943 (Pais, pg. 496). But Bohr was thinking beyond the invention of the atomic bomb.
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