Primary Sources
Websites
Baker, Sinéad. “Albert Einstein Wrote to the US Pleading with the Government to Build an Atomic Bomb 80 Years Ago. Here's What He Said.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 2 Aug. 2019, www.businessinsider.com/albert-einstein-wrote-letter-us-roosvelt-atomic-bomb-2019-8.
This is a very useful site. It helped me get the big picture of what happened and how it happened. The site is not primary but the pictures and Einstien’s letter are primary. It helped me see how Albert Einstien contributed to the project. I used the transcript of Einstien’s letter to show exactly what he sent to President Roosevelt. I got all of my photos from this site.
Secondary Sources
Book
Tracy, Kathleen. Top secret: the story of the Manhattan Project. Hockessin, Del.: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2006. Print.
I used this book to learn about what happened before Einstien's letter was sent to President Roosevelt. It talks about nuclear fission and what happened before the manhattan project was formed. It helped me understand what each bomb was made of. It has a good amount of pictures.
Websites
Chief, Editor in. “7 Biggest Pros and Cons of Nuclear Weapons.” Green Garage, 16 Dec. 2019, greengarageblog.org/7-biggest-pros-and-cons-of-nuclear-weapons.
I used this site to get the pros and cons of nuclear weapons. It gives a lot of stats for countries with nuclear weapons. It gave me an overall understanding of what nuclear weapons are good for and what they are bad for.
History.com Editors. “Manhattan Project.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 26 July 2017, https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-manhattan-project.`
This is a nice website to give you a good overview of the whole project. It describes it in chronological order. The video is nice to help you visualize how everything happened. The video tells you why and how the project was formed, the struggles of the project, and about the dropping of the bomb.
Kelly, Martin. “Timeline of The Manhattan Project.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 3 July 2019, www.thoughtco.com/the-manhattan-project-timeline-4051979.
I used this site to get a good timeline of the project. It gives all the important info and doesn’t leave any out. There are not a lot of pictures. I used this site to get exact dates of when things happened.
“Manhattan Project Background Information and Preservation Work.” Energy.gov, www.energy.gov/management/office-management/operational-management/history/manhattan-project.
This is a good credible site. It has good background information. I got some good facts from this site. There are no pictures. It has a lot of manhattan project resources. It tells about the preservation work that has been done.