The themes I would like to pursue for this concept is information, war, morality, and mortality.

Information comes from the need to inform people about the project, to alert them to the who, why, what, and hows of the Manhattan Project, most of the American public have very little understanding of the A-bomb and its creation and detonation. War of course is another theme, the war front that was never told, the creation of the bomb, that would later be destructed several thousand miles away, took place on our homelands soil. Finally human mortality, from the creation of the bomb to the detonation of the bomb, human lives were put in danger, and were purposefully destroyed to make a point of the power and vastness of this new weapon. The social issues that will be addressed is the cost of human life, what gives certain people the right to knock out whole cities, instead of fighting it person to person. When does warfare lose the humanity and become simply about winning the fight instead of preserving humanity. Where and who draws the line with what is ethical and what is not, and when do some lives become more important than others? Narrators for my concept are the men that were at different levels that ultimately had to choose to create, build, and detonate the bomb. General Groves, at a military and political level, and Oppenheimer at the scientific level, would be the main characters and the main narrators. They often worked as a pair, which will make the narrations lap together and will not have as much information. This will make the narration unique, not only having one person thoughts at one point, but usually two peoples thought process, and final thoughts on the project. I want my reader to understand the nature and conflicts that arise from the Manhattan Project. That nothing positive for the long term future came from using the bomb. The purpose of my concept is to make the audience think of the bomb as more than just a group of chemicals whose sole purpose was to destroy a population to end the war. Rather, get into the mortality, morality, and information that surrounded the war and the decision for the creation, and detonation of the A-Bomb. What went into the thought process of the bomb and how similar this is for the thought process of the detonation of nuclear warheads.