Fat Man Research Paper
August 9th,1945 the second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. In the image noted at the end of the paper, it shows Fat Man just after it has dropped. The Manhattan Project is considered to be an important factor in ending World War 2 II. The photo is a candid depicting the damage that will come. The Manhattan Project started in 1939, with Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist that drafted a letter and then sent it to Franklin D. Roosevelt and it was signed by former teacher Albert Einstein. Lead scientist of the project was Robert J. Oppenheimer, and was one of many that were considered father of the atomic bomb. Many other famous scientists were involved in the Manhattan Project including Aage and Niels Bohr,Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman,Frank Oppenheimer,Pief Panofsky, Edward Teller,Victor
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Weinberg, and Victor Weisskopf. Those names may mean nothing to some but to others that is just some of the main physicists that worked together in varying locations working to build the first atomic bomb.
Out of the twenty five locations, Hanford,Washington, Los Alamos,New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the three most prominent locations for building the atomic bombs. Fat Man was the third atomic bomb dropped in history, it contained 14 pounds of Plutonium and weighed 10,300 pounds. Robert J. Oppenheimer once said, “ I am become death,the destroyer of worlds”. The importance of this image is that the bomb is literal death and represents the damage created. They took the best scientists and placed them together to create a thing that would be killing an unimaginable amount of people. Fat Man had a blast yield of 21kt, which is just some of the TNT out of the 3 megatons of TNT used throughout WW II. Fat Man also was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 Japanese Civilians. Which proved that choices indeed have consequences, and people suffered as a result of it not only figuratively but literally as well. The burns, the radiation effects, and malnutrition; they suffered
tremendously. This image is necessary to explain to how it truly impacted the people of Nagasaki, as well as it became a victory of the United States for Japan to truly being diminishing power. If someone were to tell you that Fat Man has the explosive equivalent of 21,000 tons, you may say “Wow,that's a lot of tons”. But the image that can’t be replicated to show how big and how far that mushroom cloud went. The choices made led to a greater scientific improvement as well as the the power and capacity of isotopes Plutonium-239 and Uranium-235. But the consequences led the United States hold the responsibility of 220,000 deaths in total, as Little Boy holds responsible for 160,000 deaths. The image leaves a large legacy of what was coming to the the Japanese Civilians within the follows seconds,minutes,days and months to follow. I choose this image because it shows how even science in the right hands created detrimental effects for the opponent and that it was a destructive impulse. It demonstrates how powerful people can be when they have set their mind to it. The Manhattan Project employed over 130,000 people, and costed the United States $2 billion which is about $25.8 billion as of 2013. Although the picture may be in black and white and brings out the “beauty” of the bomb as a glides into the sky with a multitude of varying grey colors. What patterns exist within the text that make it a part of other works like it?
Weinberg, and Victor Weisskopf. Those names may mean nothing to some but to others that is just some of the main physicists that worked together in varying locations working to build the first atomic bomb.
Out of the twenty five locations, Hanford,Washington, Los Alamos,New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the three most prominent locations for building the atomic bombs. Fat Man was the third atomic bomb dropped in history, it contained 14 pounds of Plutonium and weighed 10,300 pounds. Robert J. Oppenheimer once said, “ I am become death,the destroyer of worlds”. The importance of this image is that the bomb is literal death and represents the damage created. They took the best scientists and placed them together to create a thing that would be killing an unimaginable amount of people. Fat Man had a blast yield of 21kt, which is just some of the TNT out of the 3 megatons of TNT used throughout WW II. Fat Man also was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 Japanese Civilians. Which proved that choices indeed have consequences, and people suffered as a result of it not only figuratively but literally as well. The burns, the radiation effects, and malnutrition; they suffered
tremendously. This image is necessary to explain to how it truly impacted the people of Nagasaki, as well as it became a victory of the United States for Japan to truly being diminishing power. If someone were to tell you that Fat Man has the explosive equivalent of 21,000 tons, you may say “Wow,that's a lot of tons”. But the image that can’t be replicated to show how big and how far that mushroom cloud went. The choices made led to a greater scientific improvement as well as the the power and capacity of isotopes Plutonium-239 and Uranium-235. But the consequences led the United States hold the responsibility of 220,000 deaths in total, as Little Boy holds responsible for 160,000 deaths. The image leaves a large legacy of what was coming to the the Japanese Civilians within the follows seconds,minutes,days and months to follow. I choose this image because it shows how even science in the right hands created detrimental effects for the opponent and that it was a destructive impulse. It demonstrates how powerful people can be when they have set their mind to it. The Manhattan Project employed over 130,000 people, and costed the United States $2 billion which is about $25.8 billion as of 2013. Although the picture may be in black and white and brings out the “beauty” of the bomb as a glides into the sky with a multitude of varying grey colors. What patterns exist within the text that make it a part of other works like it?