Manhattan Project - What is It, and 12 Things You May Not Know About #878461

The Silence Beneath the Blast
When you hear the phrase Manhattan Project, you usually think bomb. We think of mushroom clouds, desert tests and that fateful moment when J. Robert Oppenheimer recited the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
It’s one of those historical moments that now comes emblazoned with the kind of familiarity, and the kind of almost mythic quality, that are engraved on the collective memory with all of the poignancy of a black-and-white photograph from 1945. But there’s something strange about that clarity. It hides more than it reveals.
The Manhattan Project is often treated like a moment in time, a secretive operation tucked neatly into the years of World War II. A group of scientists, a few desert labs, a ticking clock, and the race to beat the Nazis.