could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was after that letter was delivered that the United States began the project‚ known then only as‚ "The Manhattan Project." The Manhattan Project was devoted to increasing research that would produce an atomic bomb. ("World War II: The Atomic Bomb") Over the course of six years‚ from 1939 to 1945‚ more than $2 billion was spent on the Manhattan Project. The formulas for refining uranium and putting together a working atomic bomb were created by some of the greatest
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surrender of all Japanese forces‚” but the Japanese would not oblige. At first‚ Truman considered invasion of the Japanese main island‚ Honshu‚ but too many American soldiers would have died. The military turned to The Manhattan Project‚ the secret multi-billion dollar military project that had been developing nuclear weapons for four years‚ and asked for a way to destroy Japan efficiently. They took a uranium bomb‚ nicknamed Little Boy‚ and dropped it on a large military town on the coast of the main
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never be free‚ are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton wanted to use her gift as a mathematician to help people around the world; instead‚ she was deceitfully recruited to work on a project that would kill sixty – seventy thousand people and injure one hundred forty thousand more. Sentence Outline Backround * Born October 20th‚ 1921 * Nuclear Scientists * Her father‚ Sebastian Hinton‚ was
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Effects of the Atomic Bomb Ryan McNall Southern Vermont College In our vast history of events‚ we have learned a lot about radiation. One event in time that had a big effect on what we know about radiation was when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945. This attack started the nuclear warfare age and gave the world an idea of what radiation can do to your body if it is used in the wrong ways. Before the attack on Japan‚ the United
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responsible for providing the Soviet Union with crucial information about the Manhattan project and the development of the atom bomb‚ the importance and value of the information that he gave the Russians is unfathomable. “By handing over the secret of the plutonium bomb and implosion to the Soviets‚ Fuchs allowed the Soviet bomb project to skip the length and astounding expensive development stage that had led the Manhattan project to that solution.” Fuchs alone sped the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb program
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The Atomic Bomb: Effects on Hiroshima and Mankind The nuclear bomb was the most devastating weapon ever created by man. It was developed between 1942 and 1945 during the second World War. The project to build the worlds first atomic weapon was called The Manhattan Project. The nuclear bomb was based on the idea of splitting an atom to create energy‚ this is called fission. Three bombs were created‚ "Trinity"‚ "Little Boy"‚ and "Fat Man". "Trinity" was dropped on a test site in New Mexico on July
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born during January 15‚ 1908 and died during September 9‚ 2003. Teller immigrated to the United States in the 1930s‚ and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. The Manhattan project was held at the fledgling Los Alamos National Laboratory and Teller eventually became the assistant director for the project.
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post-war Japan adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles‚ forbidding that nation from nuclear armament. o The Manhattan Project Main article: Manhattan Project The United States‚ with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada in their respective secret projects Tube Alloys and Chalk River Laboratories‚ designed and built the first atomic bombs under what was call the Manhattan Project. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The Hiroshima bomb‚ a gun-type
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received the news that the Manhattan Project had been successful; the United States had detonated the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos‚ New Mexico. The Manhattan project started in 1941 as a race with germany to develop the first atomic bomb. The project cost about 2 billion dollars and 120‚000 people worked on it. Truman did not want to risk the lives of American soldiers if the allies were to invade Japan. Consequently‚ he ordered the use of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan project had long been underway
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