Step 1 : Introduction to the question "The Manhattan Project was responsible for what military innovation?"
...The Manhattan Project is the most important — and arguably the most secretive — military project in U.S. history. From 1942 to 1945, government scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer developed the world’s first atomic bomb. The first detonation occurred on July 16, 1945, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Within a month, the U.S. used the weapon against Japan in an effort to end World War II.