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Scientists Who Invented the Atomic Bomb under the Manhattan Project are Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller.
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At Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb.
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The immense destructive power of atomic weapons derives from a sudden release of energy produced by splitting the nuclei of the fissile elements making up the bombs' core.
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United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. About 140,000 people were killed or died within months
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about 80,000 people died after the United States bombed Nagasaki, Japan.
