Which project was Compton a key figure in during World War II?
The Manhattan Project
The Apollo mission
The Project Blue Book
The Human Genome Project
Answer
The Manhattan Project, led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and involving renowned scientists like Enrico Fermi and Richard Feynman, was the United States' top-secret research and development effort during World War II that successfully produced the world's first atomic bombs, detonated in the Trinity test in New Mexico and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, ultimately hastening the conclusion of the war.
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