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House see ground zero and the ranch house. In addition, one of the old instrumentation bunkers is visible beside the road just west of ground zero. (The Manhattan Project) The story of Trinity Site begins with the formation of the Manhattan Project in June 1942. The project was given overall responsEMRTCibility for designing and building an atomic bomb. At the time it was a rac

e to beat the Germans wh

• o, according to intell
• igence reports, were
• building their own
• atomic bom
• b. Under the Manhattan P
• roject three large fa
• cilities were constructed. At