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the development of teh atmoic bomb began in 1939 when a small group of scientists in this country called to the attention of the U.S.Government the vast potentialities of atmoic energy for military purposes and warned that the Germans were already carrying on exeriments in this field. The program initiated October of that year with a very modest appropriation and later expanded into the two billion dollar Manhattan Project had only one purpose to …

…considerations were the saving of lives in the war and the effect of our actions on the stability of the post war world. On June 16th the panel reported that it had studied carefully the proposals made by the scientists but could see no practical way of ending the war by a technical demonstration. Almost regretfully,it seemed, the four members of the panel concluded that there was "no acceptable alternative to direct military use."