the first nuclear bomb test? Plutonium 2. What was the nickname of the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb? . Fat Man . 3. Which president authorized creation of the atomic bomb? Harry Truman 4. What was the code name of the project to develop the atomic bomb? Trinity 5. What process generates the heat and energy in present day nuclear power plants? nuclear fusion 6. When was the last U.S. nuclear bomb test? 1991 7. How many nuclear power plants are in operation
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In 1979‚ Miyako Ishiuchi received the Kimura Ihei‚ the most notable Photography Award in Japan‚ which brought her international recognition for her captivating post-war japanese photography. Many years later‚ with much more artwork in her portfolio‚ the Getty Museum in Los Angeles opened an exhibition with the largest collection of her work outside of Japan (Tate). This is where I encountered and became enamoured with her dynamic work. Miyako Ishiuchi’s emotional and intimate photo’s express her
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Final Project 1960 Time Capsule Kaplan University January 12‚ 2014 After receiving a very intriguing call from my colleagues‚ about a great time capsule find‚ I made my immediate departure for a little place we call the Red Zone previously known as Colorado. As I arrive I help my colleagues to unearth a time capsule from the period of the 1960s. We carefully opened the capsule that had intrigued us all so much to find five articles inside that told a great story of our past and of the decade
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WW2 was a very bloody war and it was kind of good for America because it gave women the chance to have jobs and not just be a stay at home mom/wife. On september 16‚1940 congress passed the first peacetime military act‚ This act ordered men from the ages of 21-35 to be trained for battle in 12 months but that was before Pearl Harbor had gotten attacked. After Pearl Harbor congress passed the Selective Service Act which extended drafting to 18-38 years to join the military‚ But men 18-65 had no
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in the early 1970’s with the theory of pulsations. He formulized the mathematical analysis of gravitational waves. From the 1980’s to the 2000s‚ Kip co-founded the LIGO‚ which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. “This project targeted Gravitational Wave sources that were worthy of study”. Over the next couple years‚ he has renewed and advanced the LIGO system. With the help of a girl named Anna Zytkow‚ Kip predicted the existence of red supergiant stars that have neutron
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Midway through the 20th century‚ towards the end of World War II‚ one of the most feared and important weapons was fabricated. The nuclear bomb‚ also known as the atomic bomb‚ was first constructed by the United States‚ with the initial project starting in August of 1942 (“Nuclear Weapons”). The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the United States on August 6th‚ 1945‚ and on August 9th 1945 a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki (“Science behind”). By dropping two nuclear
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Was the atomic bomb necessary to secure a surrender from Japan? The academic historians vary in their answers to this questions‚ which in turn sparked the idea for the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. In 1995‚ the curators and staff attempted to raise the academic standards of the museum by incorporating controversy into the museum experience. It juxtaposed the creation and restoration process of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress air-carrier that transported the atomic bomb
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to Rs 3 billion by 1995. DRDO’s Tejas light-combat aircraft development program commenced in 1983‚ and took some two decades to complete its maiden flight‚ finally inducted into the Air Force last year after nearly almost 30 years. Smaller-scale projects that DRDO has worked on include mosquito repellents‚ body creams
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Why do you think Albert Einstein wrote this letter? I think Albert Einstein wrote this letter to persuade the president of the United States to start the bomb‚ find a source of uranium‚ and put someone in charge. Einstein suggested that an extremely powerful bomb can be started based on the uranium there is. It quotes‚” that it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium.” and ”Now it appears certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.” Albert
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Nuclear Advancements After the Manhattan Project When the first atomic bomb was detonated in Alamogordo New Mexico on June 16‚ 1945‚ all the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project understood the great destructive power of radio-active isotopes. Although the atomic bomb was a very destructive force our world would not be as good without it. Because of the government funding involved in the project coupled with the need for an atom bomb‚ much research that otherwise may not have occurred
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