The Manhattan Project was a very important event throughout the history of World War II. Thus began the development of the atomic bomb and other nuclear weapons which proved to be of great help during the war. It all started with a German scientist splitting the uranium atom, which made people fear what Hitler might be capable of. Hitler and his people had also begun to discover new types of weapons that were useful to them during the war. Apparently, Hitler did not really think about the persecution of Jewish scientists like Albert Einstein, who could very well use his abilities against Hitler. Albert Einstein was a Jewish refugee in the United States. Another very important scientist, although not Jewish, was Enrico Fermi, who had escaped Italian fascism and settled in the United States. These two really intelligent men knew what Hitler was doing with the atomic bomb. Since they both knew about Hitler and his new developments, Fermi and Einstein made sure that Roosevelt knew that Hitler and the other Axis powers possessed numerous nuclear and atomic weapons that could prevent them from developing....