“The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Nazi Germany would build and use a nuclear weapon during World War II triggered the start of the Manhattan Project, which was originally based in Manhattan, New York”(“Manhattan Project.”). Many Scientist worked on this project including Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer, and General Leslie R. Groves. A main point of the bomb is was it necessary. “Civilian authorities, especially Truman himself, would later try to revise history by claiming that the bombs were dropped to save the lives of one million American soldiers”(Freeman). Many people said Japan had already lost the war before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “It may take another six or even sixty decades but eventually the truth of the bomb's use will be written not in mythology but in history. Hopefully, as a result, the world will be a safer place”(Freeman). People have been discussing if the bombing was or was not need, but it is a part of history we can not