World War II Timeline -- pt. I. Americans Abroad -- 1. Fairness, Savagery, Delight, Trauma, and Vice -- 2. Combat Remembered -- 3. Why We Fight -- pt. II. Americans at Home -- 4. Gearing Up for War -- ...
The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...