Main Cities Within Lee County, Alabama. 1  Auburn, Alabama. 2  Opelika, Alabama. 3  Phenix City, Alabama. 4  Smiths Station, Alabama.
The Manhattan Project was the project to develop the first nuclear  weapon (atomic bomb) during World War II by the United States, the  United Kingdom, and Canada.
In December 1941, the government launched the Manhattan Project, the scientific and military undertaking to develop the bomb. A Letter to the President. In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it. Einstein: A Security Risk