✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

WWII Innovations: The Fruit of the Manhattan Project | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

nationalww2museum.org · 1,344 words · saved by 1 readers

The technology of the Manhattan Project didn't just find its way into bombs--it powers submarines and other ships today.

As we approach the 75th anniversary of the culmination of the Manhattan Project and the Trinity test in July 1945, followed by the detonation of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, it is a time to reflect on the legacy of the huge scientific effort. One little understood part of the legacy is today’s submarine fleet. In World War II, submarines were very important. At the beginning of the war German U Boats exacted a huge cost in lives and goods in the Battle of the Atlantic. They ranged undersea as the eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. These submarines utili

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading