In 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, an atomic endeavor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the agencies that led to the Manhattan Project in 1939, when U.S. intelligence operatives reported that scientists working for Adolf Hitler were already working on a nuclear weapon. The contentious development and subsequent deployment of the atomic bomb involved some of the world's most brilliant scientists, as well as the United States military. In 1942, the OSRD established the Manhattan Engineer District in the New York City borough of the same name. Colonel Leslie R. Groves of the United States Army was selected to oversee the project.
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