The Manhattan project was the project behind the American atomic bomb. Nearing the end of WWII, President Rosevelt died and Truman took over the Presidency. Truman then learned of the U.S. plan to have an atomic bomb. In the end, Truman decided to use this power (the atomic bomb) that was created by means of the Manhattan Project, and bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima, powerfully stopping the fighting between the US and Japan in the Pacific Theatre in WWII.