The U.S. government’s clandestine funding of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb, involved strategic manipulation of military spending and deliberate obfuscation to keep the project’s finances hidden. In 1944, Roosevelt administration officials quietly inserted funding for the bomb into a military spending bill, aided by Congress, without public debate or a traceable paper trail. This secrecy was maintained throughout the project’s progression, despite the considerable costs involved and the monumental impact of the bomb on global history.

This investigative report reveals the intricate details of how the government managed to secretly fund such a massive and consequential project.

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