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.
The Manhattan Project was the top secret military endeavor to  build, and detonate the first atomic bomb. It was based at Los  Alamos, New Mexico and headed by Dr. J. Robert â¦ Oppenheimer.Born out of a small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project  eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2  billion USD ($23 billion in 2007 dollars based on CPI). It resulted  in the creation of multiple production and research sites that  operated in secret.