1. Manhattan Project
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After the surrender of Germany in World War II the allies needed a weapon powerful enough to make the Japanese surrender. The Manhattan project was the first program that was aimed to equip the country with nuclear weapons.
After $2 bn funding ($26 bn today) the project was complete. A test in New Mexico had been a success . The scientist finally unveiled the ‘Little boy’ and the ‘Fat man’ these were dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The Japanese finally surrendered 5 days later.
Sources: 100 greatest events that changed the world, Wikipedia, World War 2 timeline.
Einstein initially proposed the idea and signed a letter written by a fellow scientist to discuss the topic of fusion sent to the President Roosevelt.
So a board of scientists met in secret. They soon discovered that splitting a uranium atom would create an enormous amount of energy and then could be used as a bomb.