Fearful that the Germans would beat WWII Allies to a nuclear weapon, physicist Albert Einstein wrote to FDR, urgently pushing America's A-bomb development.
But after the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he and many scientists on the project publicly expressed deep regret.
These eight men and women (among others) shared atomic secrets that enabled the Soviet Union to successfully detonate its first nuclear weapon by 1949.
The Manhattan Project was prompted by reports that Adolf Hitler's scientists were researching nuclear weapons, motivating the U.S. to develop the first atomic bomb during World War II. Learn more.
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