| 单词 | manhattan project |
| 释义 | > as lemmasManhattan Project Manhattan Project n. (the code name for) a U.S. government research project set up in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb, and culminating with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon at White Sands, New Mexico, in July 1945; (in extended use) any similar dedicated, intensive research initiative. ΚΠ 1945 Daily Tel. 7 Aug. 6/3 Mr. Stimson said that the code name ‘Manhattan Project’ was given to all work on the atomic bomb. 1962 Listener 29 Mar. 545/2 The success of the Manhattan Project (by means of which the first nuclear weapons were developed) has become a model of how scientific principles may be made to serve military ends. 1975 S. Johnson Urbane Guerilla iv. 174 The Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb..at Los Alamos in New Mexico..had cost $2,000,000,000. 1993 Chicago Tribune 19 June i. 14/5 The president should have focused on his campaign vow of a Manhattan Project for AIDS. < as lemmas |
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