The Manhattan Project

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  1. 5. The project began because Americans were worried about atomic bombs when a German scientist discovered the following: Atoms are split apart, releasing energy. This is known as nuclear ______.
  2. 7. In New York, the city that was original headquarters for the project
  3. 10. The Japanese city that was hit by the uranium-filled atomic bomb, Little Boy
  4. 11. The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki
  5. 12. The Japanese city that was hit by the plutonium-filled atomic bomb, Fat Man
  6. 13. In Tennessee, the town that was the main headquarters for the project and home to the first plutonium reactor and uranium enrichment plants
  7. 14. In 1944, the first atomic bomb was ___.
  8. 15. In 1945, the first atomic bomb was ____.
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  1. 1. Following WW2, the war that began because of this research development
  2. 2. The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
  3. 3. There were ____ billion dollars spent on the project
  4. 4. The last name of the man who led the Manhattan Project
  5. 6. What Japan did following the bombings
  6. 8. In New Mexico, the town that was the weapons research laboratory (known as Project Y) and the location for bomb design and testing
  7. 9. In Washington, the town that was the main plutonium reactor / plutonium production plant