What are some connections from the Manhatten Project to Lord of the Flies?

The Manhattan Project refers to the attempt to design and create an atomic weapon; the result of this experiment became the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, which effectively forced Japan to surrender to the United States. Lord of the Flies is a novel by William Golding, published in 1954, a few years after the war ended. The action takes place during an unnamed war. The boys are in a plane that crashes over the Pacific and they are marooned on an island and forced to figure out how to survive.
The situation could be said to be metaphorical, symbolizing the state of the world in which the specter of nuclear annihilation has been unleashed. The remaining survivors of a nuclear war would be forced to figure out how to build shelter and find food, as well as rebuild a society, and this is the very situation that faces the boys in Golding's novel. Their situation breaks down over arguments about who is in charge and what their goals and activities should be. Golding paints a picture of bleak humanity in which aggression and brutality seem to win out over justice and compassion. In this way it is a commentary upon the decision to use destructive nuclear weapons to win war as an inhumane and ultimately humanity-destroying solution.