Flashcard sets with a 'manhattan project' term meaning 'code name given to the development of the us atomic bomb during world war ii. work on the bomb was carried out in great secrecy by a team including us physicists enrico fermi and j. robert oppenheimer. the first test took place on july 16, 1945, near alamogordo, new mexico, and the next month the us air force dropped bombs on japan.'

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