The Manhattan Project: Nuclear Research

An Atomic Bomb is a weapon, or explosive, cause by a quick release of energy from the splitting of the nuclei. Elements like uranium or plutonium are used in the bomb. (Editors of Encyclopaedia par.1) During the development of the atom bomb the United States was in World War II. America kept the development of the bomb secret because Germany was ahead of them on building the Atomic bomb. ( Roleff 56) The United States kept the creation of the bomb very top secret. They kept some of the most famous scientist in the world in one place for three years. They also had and created three hidden cities, that know one ,but the most

The letter that was written by Einstein convinced President Truman to create a special team of scientists to investigate Einstein’s claim. Within a few months, The United States created, tested, and launched the atom bomb. It’s first military use was during World War two on Japan. As the New York Times put it, “First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile is Equal to 20,000 Units of Tnt; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin '.” First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile is Equal to 20,000 Units of tnt; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin '” displaying the devastating situation and America 's view on it (Hersey). Nothing in the article mentioned or even hinted at Einstein’s involvement in the creation of the deadly bomb that claimed more than 80,000 Japanese lives. The public still did not know of Einstein’s involvement in the making of the atom bomb. All of this happened due to Einstein 's fear of the safety of America. However, this result was not part of Einstein’s intentions. When he was informed of the result of his research, he defends himself by saying, “Ach! The world is not ready for it. Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in develop­ing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing for the bomb.” illustrating how his intentions were not to create this form of destruction (Lapp). By stating that the United States

At this point in the war America had already suffered losses of more than 418,000 lives, both military and civilian. Thanks to the manhattan project they had a weapon of mass destruction within their grasp, the atomic bomb. It is right to say that the use of the weapon helped to near the end of WWII. Germany was already out of the picture, but Japan held its strength, conquering several hundred islands in the Indian Ocean. In an article

World War II was one of the biggest conflicts in the history of the world. It was a conflict between the Allies — Britain, American, and France — and the Axis Powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan. America entered the war in 1941 when the Japanese surprise attack our naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. At the start of the conflict, the 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was our Chief in Command that had just let the nation through one of its most trying times, the Great Depression. In 1942, Roosevelt began a top secret project led by Robert J. Oppenheimer. The Manhattan Project was started in fears that Nazi Germany was going to create the ultimate weapon, powered by the natural forces of fission. As President and wartime Commander, Roosevelt

During World War II, the United States discovered that the energy of the atom could be used in a new form of bomb. However, the Germans also discovered this, meaning that it would be a race to actually complete the weapon. The U.S. knew it needed to act fast and so three facilities were created for the development of the weapon in Washington, New Mexico, and Tennessee. The plants in Tennessee were based in almost the middle of nowhere. The land had to be procured from farmers before building the worksites and the new town where the workers would live: Oak Ridge. When this new town was built on its swampy footing, it was a total secret. The rest of the world had no clue that Oak Ridge, Tennessee existed, and those working there couldn’t

The Manhattan Project might have ended in 1947, but its effects lasted far past that (Palmer “The Long Shadow Of The Manhattan Project Part I: The Atom Bomb And Science”). One of its more prominent effects was the Atomic age when thousands of nuclear weapons were created and tested including the hydrogen bomb (“The Development and Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”). To this day, the hydrogen bomb is the most powerful nuclear weapon, with the energy of 15,000 kilotons of TNT (Palmer “The Long Shadow Of The Manhattan Project Part I: The Atom Bomb And Science”). The Atomic age was also included the Cold War, when Russia and America competed fiercely in a nuclear arms race, though they never actually fought with the weapons (Majerol “The Atom

The Cold War was from 1945-1991. It grew between communism and capitalism. Decade a long rivalry between western powers and Soviet Union. The Atomic bombs were created in 1949. They were trying to use all possible methods to a short war. The use of atomic bombs meant there would be a “hot war” not a “cold war.” A Hot War meant that there would also be fighting and the use of weapons. The growth in weapons leads to mass destruction. A Cold War meant that neither sides would be fighting. After the Cold War led to the Space Race. After the cold war and the space race that led to the Iron

Before World War II even started the Americans started their nuclear weapons project. This project was called the Manhattan Project. In 1939, a group of American scientist became concerned about nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany (“Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”). The U.S. made two bombs Little Boy and Fat Man.

How did President Truman come to the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan as a means to end World War 2? President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on japan to save people from agony and pain. Even though the two bomb killed more than 200,000 Japanese civilians, it saved American soldiers. For this reason, President Truman thought that dropping these bombs was for the greater good.

The Manhattan Project was the code-name given to the American research and development of an atomic bomb. The high-stakes chess game of World War Two was in full swing, and every move each side played sent a wave of reaction throughout the world. Even though the United States would not officially enter the war until 1941, they were believed to

In the case of the Manhattan Project, scientists without prior working knowledge and scientific experience would not have successfully been able to produce a nuclear weapon. As the documentary shows, the experienced scientists working together were able to put forth the working knowledge that would be difficult to not only verbally describe but also difficult to transcribe (tacit knowledge). Both Zillard and Fermi came together with their different approaches, thinking styles and methods, allowing for them to both apply tacit knowledge with each other and their teams.

The Soviet Nuclear Age was a time period during the Cold War in which nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had been heightened. The Arms Race that ensued began when the Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs had collected vital information about the first thermonuclear bomb that was detonated by the U.S. in 1945.The first hydrogen bomb test by the U.S.S.R. was conducted on August 29th, 1949 and was code named First Lightning. The hydrogen bomb which was a new concept developed by the Soviet Union and was created in order to have a larger more powerful weapon in comparison to the American bomb. The hydrogen bomb took 4 years to develop as opposed to the bomb developed by the Manhattan Project which took 5 years to create. However the U.S. argues that the Hydrogen bomb was not more than 20% of the power released from their previous explosives. The Soviets believed they had to build stronger and bigger bombs to compensate for their lack of accuracy and precision. The Tsar bomba was the largest nuclear weapon ever built and was detonated as an act of intimidation by the Soviets. The nuclear arms race came to an end during the 1980s due the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to establish a Communism

Zoellner wrote the book Uranium to give people who do not have much knowledge as to what happened during the Manhattan Project, a deeper understanding of the “uranium era” and to show the hidden business transactions that were made by the United States to become the “powerhouse” country that it is today. Zoellner later goes into detail about the aftermath of the dropping of the Atom Bomb. As well as explains how the whole process of the Manhattan Project affected other countries needs for uranium for instance, “But every speck of it had to be counted and hoarded; it was, at the time, the most valuable matter on the planet” (64). He then goes into detail describing which countries wanted bombs and what they were willing to do to get them. When

The atomic bomb was one of the greatest and most destructive inventions in American history. J. Robert Oppenheimer is known to be the “father of the A-bomb” and received numerous praises for his work ("Oppenheimer: American Prometheus"). The Manhattan project, where the Trinity bomb was set off, was where everything fell into place for Oppenheimer and his career with the atomic bomb. “J. Robert Oppenheimer was director at the Los Alamos site. Though an American, he had studied in Europe for years, and that was one reason why General Groves picked him for the job” (Claypool 45). After the bomb was set off and Oppenheimer stated that he was “destroyer of worlds”, that quote not only became a part of history but told a story to the American people as to who J. Robert Oppenheimer was and how the world’s most destructive weapon came to life.

The nuclear test of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon was codenamed Trinity, but the atomic device was nicknamed The Gadget. The date of the Trinity test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age. The gadget was an implosion-type plutonium device, similar in design to the Fat Man bomb used three weeks later in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.