the secret US project to develop the atom bomb, begun in 1942. It involved a team of scientists led by J Robert Oppenheimer, first at Oak Ridge, Tennessee , and later at Los Alamos , New Mexico , where the bomb was built. The first bomb was exploded as a test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945.
MANHATTAN PROJECT
Meaning of MANHATTAN PROJECT in English
Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005