Dec+5,+1941

December 5 1942

Dear Diary  It’s been a long time that I haven’t written anything on this diary. This is because I was too busy. Too many things are happening. I had too much school work and the most awful thing is going on in US right now. My prediction in the past was correct. I thought that we are going to go on a war with the Japanese army and now, here we are. To end this long-lasting war, I have joined the Manhattan Project. This was what I was looking forward to in the past. Here we are trying to make a powerful weapon called an Atomic bomb. We are trying to create this powerful weapon to destroy Japan. I am directing this project, and I think it is going great until now. We still have to work much harder to produce the atomic bomb. I read on the news that Japan had enjoyed their 100 days of victory over the countries in East Asia. This made me contribute to the Manhattan Project. Japan is a powerful country, and we need to have the powerful weapon as soon as possible so that we are ready for the war any time. This is going to be a great project. I can predict, we are going to success. Even though Japan has a powerful army, it wouldn’t win our powerful weapons that we are working on in the Manhattan Project. We just started working on this project, but I predict at least 3 years of research and experiments to create the atomic bomb. Atomic bomb will blow up everything else besides Japan if we drop it. We don’t want to lose a person just to attack Japan with the atomic bomb. I was thinking, after we create the atomic bomb, we should fly to japan and drop the bombs down in high altitudes. The dropping of the bomb will be more effective with the friction that the bomb will get from air while it’s dropping because of gravity. We have everything set, and we just have to work harder to produce the atomic bomb. I will have to go work on the Manhattan project now. Good bye.

-Robert Oppenheimer