This project may be considered by some Americans to be a research  project, and in many ways it was. But an engineer or a military person would see it from a different perspective. Without the support of individual engineers and without the vision and wisdom of our scientists and military leaders, this project could not have achieved the success that it did and the world might have been changed forever.

The first part of this course focuses on the war-mongering efforts of the Germans and the Japanese to change the world's balance of power.  The second part of this course describes in great detail the efforts of the many volunteer scientists and engineers, under the supervision of a proven military leader, to do something that many skeptics thought could not be done. This project emphasizes the tenacity and wisdom of key people in the military as well as in the private sector who combined their considerable talents to complete such an enormous  project when the stakes were so high.

Understand the enormous pressure that confronted the military, scientists, and engineers.

Learn how engineers, working with physicists and other scientists, coped with an unknown technology and very few references.

Understand the role that federal government officials (including the military) played in the approval and development of one of the world's most  well-known projects.

Discover how leadership played such a major factor in one of the most significant projects in history.

Understand the strategies used by the civilian and military project managers to get the results they desired.