The holocaust was a very tragic and devastating time for many people. All of Hitler's rules, commands, and concentration camps needed to be stopped somehow. A very secret project, was made to build the first atomic bomb, that would soon be dropped near japan. Thousands of people began to work and build on the bomb in hopes of ending WWII. Consequently, the nuclear bomb was based on Einstein's theory and eliminated nearly 80,000 people instantly.
The first nuclear bomb was created on einstein's theory. He left Germany in 1933, before Hitler began to take over. He was against Nazism, and he told everyone there that he wouldn't come back. Einstein said, “I shall live in a land where political freedom, tolerance,…show more content… His theories showed that mass could be converted into direct energy, (E= Mc*Mc (or mc squared)) and the minute piece of mass could release a vast amount of energy. This is how they got the bomb to travel so far, and then it would create mass destruction.
In 1939, Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi (a scientist who escaped Italy and came to the U.S.) wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, explaining the dangers of the atomic bomb being in the hands of the Axis. Conversely, Albert began to talk Roosevelt into letting them make a nuclear bomb. In late 1941, the process of making an atomic bomb began to move slowly. They would now call the making of the bomb the “Manhattan Project.”
Research for the making of the atomic bomb was mainly at the university of Chicago. The project was so secretive, Vice President, Harry S. Truman, didn't know about it until he became president. Fermi led a group of scientist at the University of Chicago, to create the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. The main assembly plant for the bomb was located in Alamos, New Mexico. The total bill for research and development was around $2 billion dollars. They hired over 120,000 people to help build
