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Top Secret On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever known to this world. In result of the immense power withheld in the twenty thousand tons of TNT Hiroshima went up in flames. For the United States government the project was a success. The Atomic Bomb ended World War II, but began serious controversies concerning its power and destructive potential. In this paper the question of what led to the development and use of the A-bomb will be answered. The Manhattan Project became the code name for the Top Secret US effort to produce an atomic bomb during WWII. It was named after the Manhattan engineer district of the US army, because a large amount of the early research for the bomb was done in New York City. According to The first idea for the bomb came from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 by German Scientists, when many US scientists became fearful with the idea that Hitler might attempt to build a fission bomb. (The Manhattan Project, P. 24) Upset by the idea that Germany would be farther advanced than the US, in the building of a bomb, Leo Szilard wrote a letter to Albert Ei