Manhattan Project: What is It, and 12 Things You May Not Know About

The Silence Beneath the Blast
When you hear the phrase Manhattan Project, you usually think bomb. We think of mushroom clouds, desert tests and that fateful moment when J. Robert Oppenheimer recited the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
It's one of those historical moments that now comes emblazoned with the kind of familiarity, and the kind of almost mythic quality, that are engraved on the collective memory with all of the poignancy of a black-and-white photogr...