running a test on a B-29 and I was told to meet General Uzal Ent to be given a new assignment. I didn’t think much of it at the time but then it was explained to me what I was doing and I was told about the Manhattan Project and learnt about Atomic Bombs. I was assigned to command the project at Wendover Army Air Field in Utah. At the start I was unfamiliar with the concept of an Atomic Bomb and I honestly had no idea what it was capable of. I got annoyed with the fact that everything that we were
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Feel like becoming a god? Has anyone ever felt like they have to had unlimited power? So‚ become a nuclear power reactor operator. A nuclear power reactor operator needs the responsibility to have this power and provide energy to people in their district. Nuclear power reactor operator’s schooling‚ availability‚ and pay can vary depending on where a person plans to work. To understand nuclear power‚ it is easy to found where it started. In 1942 began the nuclear age for the world‚ but mainly for
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Science and technology in the 1950s During the 1950s‚ science and technology were improved with the cooperation between the scientists and the U.S. government. In the light of the science and technology‚ people have the power to raise their knowledge. However‚ in the 1950s‚ some of the researches and investigations were classified as top secret‚ and remained unknown to the public for many years‚ now Americans can see its repercussions in the world today. Making hydrogen bomb and the discovery of
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Patrick Blackett is known as the father of operational research and most of his work was done in and around Britain during the WWII era. During the years of 1940 to 1945‚ Blackett participated in many projects to aid the allied members in combating the axis powers. Some of his projects included creating the air-defense grid for Britain‚ improving ship convoy strategies‚ improvements to vehicle armor plating‚ as well as many other works. He was responsible for beginning the work that ultimately led
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ALBERT EINSTEIN and the ATOMIC BOMB The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But as we shall see‚ he was instrumental in facilitating its development. In 1905‚ as part of his Special Theory of Relativity‚ he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate
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The Hiroshima atomic destruction remains a historical uncertainties and ethical dilemmas. The use of atomic bombs marked forever the relationship between the US and Japan‚ and the controversy over the use of atomic weapons will no doubt continue indefinitely. Historiography and comments on the issue are gigantic. Each generation of Americans and Japanese revisited the issue‚ and the following will no doubt continue. Indeed‚ the moral justification for the destruction of two Japanese cities is clear
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Though the discovered by accident‚ gunpowder changed the trajectory of combat operations. Discovered in the ninth century Chinese alchemist developed something with the potential of conquering nations. Gunpowder is used in many weapons throughout history and to this day‚ but one of the first was flying fire. With the simple invention of the gunpowder cannon‚ a totally new type of defense was unearthed. When the devastating power of the cannon was shrunken down into a handheld weapon‚ the course of
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enacted Project Plowshare‚ a project that sought to use nuclear detonations for civil geographical projects. Edward Teller was one of the project’s most avid supporters‚ who viewed the ease in which nuclear explosions was the gateway to geographic engineering that would allow people to change the earth’s surface to suit their needs (Kirsch‚ pg.4). Though Teller was not a member of Project Plowshare‚ Teller would often use his image of a ‘public scientist to build support for the project such as promising
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“Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting‚ May 31‚1945”‚ the author stated that‚ “General Marshall was certain that we need have no fear that the Russians‚ if they had knowledge of our project‚ would disclose this information to the Japanese”(Edsitement). Russia would have told Japan if they found out about the project‚ Japan probably would not have surrendered. The US then found a way to keep Russia from talking by keeping a political relationship with
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Many would suspect at the time that he was working on a German project to develop an atomic bomb. Hahn though‚ never worked on Germany’s atomic project like others thought. Instead of spending time working on a bomb‚ he spent most of his time studying radioactive isotopes. Unfortunately‚ Hahn and nine other German scientists were taken into custody by Great
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