What caused the atomic bomb to be built?

Answer 1

WWII and the fear that Germany would get to it first. When Werner Von Braun left Germany, the US took the technology to stop Japan.

Answer 2

Nuclear research and Einstein's theories led scientists to the conclusion that a lot of energy can be released by nuclear fission, or what they called "splitting the atom." There was a race with Germany to develop the atomic bomb, and it's a good thing that American scientists, with the help of expatriate German scientists, got the bomb first. But the theory was already in place, it was just a matter of building it and making it work. The first test was above ground, in New Mexico. The test was the culmination of three years' planning and development within the super secret Manhattan Project headed by General Leslie R. Groves. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the scientific team headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico. An isolated corner of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range located 230 miles south of Los Alamos was selected for the test that was given the code-name "Trinity."

Answer 3

Ok some corrections ar ein order here...
Werner Van Braun , was a ROCKET scientist. He left Germany in 1945, and had no dealings with the Atomic Bomb project in Los Alamos. The Mahatten Project was done in the University of Chicago Football stadiium and it was the first successful splitting of the Atom. It lead to Los Alamos. Many people thingk that Niel Bohr was a escaped German Scientist. He was not. He was Danish. And he did work on the atomic Bomb project in Los Alamos

Answer 4

During World War II just before the start of the cold war the Russians and the United States were racing to get the biggest bomb possible to be the world power dominator. The US scientists in the Manhattan Project created the worlds biggest bomb yet. The atomic bomb and used it to end WW II.

Answer 5

The absolute need to beat Hitler and Hirohito to the punch. Had either Japan or Germany completed their work on nukes first, the outcome of the war could have been drastically different. Imagine a DMZ running along the Mississippi, separating the German Zone from the Japanese Zone, with the Soviet Union possibly munching on Canada and Mexico.

Answer 6

The Nazis were developing the atomic bomb so the Americans started their own effort to (utimately) develop the bomb first.

Answer 7

Years after Albert Einstein penned his theory stating that small amounts of matter can release huge amounts of energy (E=mc^2),one of his contemporaries (also a German immigrant and refugee from Hitler's regime) got wind of a rumor that the nazis were working on a weapon that could make practical use of this concept.
I forget Albert's buddie's name,but he convinced Einstien to write a letter to the President of the United States (Truman,wasn't it?) warning him of the dire situation that was brewing.
Thus the Manhattan Project was born.We had to beat the nazis to the punch.And we did,but because the nazi war machine was falling apart by the time we had the bomb ready,we dropped it on Japan (twice!) instead of Germany.
BOOM and BOOM! In short order we were handing out surrender papers and pens to sign them with!

Answer 8

Scientists that understood the potential power of a nuclear bomb and who knew that their counterparts in Nazi Germany of the early 1940s also understood this potential petitioned the US government to commence the research and engineering to build one of their own.

Answer 9

Germany was trying to devolop "the bomb" before WW2 -- those scientists eventually came to the states before the war to finish their work....

Answer 10

science. Einstein posited E=MC squared, and that started a race to unlock the power of the atom