bombs in world history. During the Manhattan Project (1942 to 1946), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (operating under the governance and oversight of the U.S. Department of Defense) helped in the planning, design, procurement, construction, and development of atomic bombs. In the summer of 1945, after approximately three years of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers involvement in the Manhattan Project, two different types of atomic bombs (a uranium fission weapon code named Little Boy and a plutonium implosion…
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