. GENISIS 1.1 In the Beginning. The Manhattan project. A team of scientists led by J Robert Oppenheimer in 1942 sought to harness the power of the splitting atom. The United States, Britain, Canada, Russia and Germany raced to design the weapon that would reshape the art of warfare forever. Louis Slotin, a Canadian scientist began to flirt with death as he slid two spheres of enriched uranium together with a pair of screwdrivers. His object was to …
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