State’s Secret: Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was one of the most relevant investigations made in the History. It was exactly a research and afterwards, a development program carried by United States and also with the collaboration of United Kingdom and Canada. This investigation consists in a secret process to know how to make the atomic bomb during World War II.

It was declared an army charged in doing it, called Manhattan District. It started as a secret project with few participants, but in 1939 there were 130.000 working on it, with a huge cost of 2 billion of dollars. It was said that this money was destined to the production of weapons but the real fact is that over 90% of the cost was really destined to the factory and production of the fissionable materials. They found two different types of atomic bomb, three methods of uranium enrichment and also, it was built many reactors. It seems impossible to be unconscious of what was really happening. The ignorance of the World was described in the expectation about Hiroshima and its repercussions to North America in both ways; creating a huge situation of social instability and also, the fear to that country.

This relevant situation has been taken as a model about State’s secret and also for people, who have the restlessness of what’s really happening, showed in the latest revolutions or in the different conflictive moments such as wars. But even now, many means of media has decreased their cultural interest according to their sponsors, at the same time as the population has increasing a huge interest in the global situation. And to conclude, I have to add that I chose this topic and this information because it’s a clear example of how many times the mobilization of people only starts when something it’s too evident and how a Government (in this case) can hide a very dangerous situation.