pound-for-pound basis‚ the U-235 in an atomic bomb can release on the order of one million times as much energy as TNT‚ a high explosive. The atomic bomb is the first nuclear powered bomb ever used. The atom bomb was created by people that worked in the Manhattan Project. The explosion generated Alpha‚ Beta‚ Gamma and neutron rays. Alpha and Beta rays were absorbed by the air and did not reach to the ground. Gamma and neutron rays were strong enough to reach the ground; thus it was these rays that affected people
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Beginning with a letter from Albert Einstein‚ the knowledge of possible construction of the atomic bomb surfaced. This discovery led into the launching of the Manhattan Project. This project became a success and those involved found it necessary to inform the USSR because the felt that failure to do so would result in suspicion and hostility. At the Potsdam Conference‚ President Truman decided to tell Stalin that the U.S. possessed “a new weapon of unusual destructive force” (Text ??). Stalin’s response
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"The Manhattan Project". On Monday July 16th‚ 1945‚ a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. As the atomic bomb was detonated it sent shock-waves all over the world. There was endless research done on the bomb in the United States. The research was called "The Manhattan Engineer District Project" but it was more commonly known as "The Manhattan Project."1 The Manhattan
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drop the bomb came‚ President Roosevelt was originally the one who ordered the process of creating a nuclear weapon. In late 1941‚ the American plan to design and build an atomic bomb was underway and it received its code name‚ the Manhattan project (The Manhattan Project 1). This began a long and painful process of trying to develop the first atomic weapon‚ eventually for the use of practically destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Little did America know that this act of war would soon
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chemistry. If it wasn’t for him we would not have known as much as we do now about the atom. He came to a conclusion of so many unanswered questions people were left after the discovery of the electron. He also participated in the United State’s biggest project that helped us win World War II. If it wasn’t for Niels Bohr we probably would not have as many things as we do today. He is one‚ if not‚ the biggest person in the history of Chemistry. Niels Bohr was born around the time people started to research
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The possibility that a bomb made with uranium could be created was considered in 1939‚ when WW2 broke out in Europe Two Hungarian physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner‚ alerted the US government to the possibility of an atomic bomb. President Roosevelt then set up a program to study uranium and the possibility of an atomic bomb. This started the series of events leading to the atomic bomb. American scientists‚ under this committee discovered that uranium-235(U-235)‚ the type used in the atomic
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morning hours of July sixteenth‚ 1945 in a remote section of an army base in Alamogordo New Mexico‚ the most destructive weapon known to man was tested‚ with a successful result of some of the world’s top scientists and years of a secret government project had started the nuclear age. On August sixth‚ 1945 during World War two‚ an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima and three days later‚ on August ninth‚ 1945 the second bomb was dropped on the city of
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The Manhattan Project World War II started on September 1 1939‚ when Germany attacked Poland. By 1941‚ the Germans were ahead in the race for the atomic bomb. They had a heavy-water plant‚ high-grade uranium compounds‚ capable scientists and engineers‚ and the greatest chemical engineering industry in the world. Even before its entry into the war‚ the United States had become very concerned with the nuclear threat of the Axis powers. On October 11‚ 1939‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt received
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Chief of Staff of the United States of America Army and Commander of all allied forces‚ I am informing you on where we should go from here‚ after the Japanese did not respond to the Potsdam declaration. In spite of what many scientists in the Manhattan Project consider‚ with the use of the Atomic Bomb’s being inhuman‚ war overall is inhuman so I have come to the conclusion that the use of the Atomic Bombs is certainly the best option and the correct thing to do. Japan has come to be the most powerful
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The Manhattan Project was developed to give America their best chance at not only fighting but winning a nuclear war. When German physicists had the knowledge to split a uranium atom‚ fear ensured. The world scientific community held the concern of Nazi scientists utilizing this new found energy to build a nuclear bomb. As to avoid this‚ the United States implemented their own project. With the input of multiple scientists‚ and the ultimate approval of President Roosevelt‚ the first atomic bomb began
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