A man, Paul Tibbets, pilot of the bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
A place, the Los Alamos facility in New Mexico at which American scientists carried out their work,.Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists around the world who were engaged in nuclear weapons research,
The song consists of four verses, addressing the following: Lyricist Neil Peart read 'a pile of books' about the Manhattan Project before writing the lyrics so that he had a proper understanding of what the project was really about. Despite not being released as a single, it did reach #10 on the U.S. 'Manhattan Project' is the third track on the album and clocks in at 5:07. The song appeared on Rush's eleventh studio album Power Windows in 1985. ' Manhattan Project' is a 1985 song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, named after the WWII project that created the first atomic bomb.
