What is the importance of the Manhattan Project in the essay collection, Unreality of Memory?

After considering catastrophes like the Titanic and 9/11, Gabbert nuances her evolving explorations in the context of the atom bomb. She not only describes the ways in which the Manhattan Project impacted countless innocent lives, but the governmental thinking that inspired and drove the project throughout. Throughout the essay, Gabbert references United States government officials' conversations regarding the Manhattan Project, and their hopes that its scale and magnitude would have even more effect than the devastation and destruction it caused.