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The Manhatten Project: The Destruction Of Honesty

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Honesty has a high value in a society known for altering the truth; through Instagram filters, photoshopped and airbrushed models, and widespread but misleading interpretations of daily life, few things seem genuine. However, deception is justified when it prevents chaos and protects one's interests.
In World War II, the American government established a top-secret project to develop the world's first atomic bombs, known as the Manhattan Project. The devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki plastered newspaper headlines around the world as a result of America's creation of the world's deadliest weapon. If the American public had knowledge of the Manhattan Project while it was underway, public unrest would have been imminent. People would be concerned about the project's potential to fail, leaving the country vulnerable and subject to attacks from antagonistic countries. In the case of those with faith in the project, cockiness might give away the government's plans for the project to enemy countries, which would also put the United States in an …show more content…

It is often expressed in the show that the information discovered in these cases not reach the public because it would cause chaos--people would have complete distrust in the government because they withheld important, relevant information, which would result in an upheaval. The FBI takes many measures in protecting the information--in the Season One finale, The Erlenmeyer Flask, one of the samples from the crime scene sent to the forensics lab for testing reveals a new, inorganic DNA sequence, and the scientist who reports it to the detectives is killed shortly after in an unexpected accident. The government kept its secrets to not only protect the public, but also themselves.
Deception is justified when it is used for

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