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Noun: Manhattan Project
  1. Code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
     
  2. A former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II

Type of: executive agency, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], project, task, undertaking

Part of: executive branch, Executive Office of the President

Encyclopedia: Manhattan Project

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