Monday, July 11, 2011  Government Conspiracy? Over 120,000
People Worked on This Project, But the Vice-President Knew
Nothing  Pic of the first atomic bomb blast in the New Mexico
desert.   From Chicago, to Tennessee, to Hanford, Washington to
the University of California, Berkeley to New Mexico, the
government kept a tight lid on the Manhattan Project. Over
120,000 people worked on this huge project, yet the government
managed to keep a lid on the entire project.  Not even Vice-
President Truman knew about it and as they say, he was only a
'heartbeat' away from the presidency. Truman had been vice
president for only 82 days when President Roosevelt died on
April 12, 1945. He had rarely discussed world affairs or
domestic politics with Roosevelt and was uninformed about major
initiatives relating to the war and the top secret Manhattan
Project, which was about to test the world's first atomic bomb.
Truman, who had not known of it beforehand, was briefed on the
ultra secret Manhattan Project by Secretary of Wa