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Type Atomic Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer
3,057 words... of more than 90 %. " (Grolier 5) This Uranium was then transported to "the Los Alamos, N. Mex. , laboratory headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer. " (Grolier 5) "Oppenheimer was the major force behind the Manhattan Project. He literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working on this project made their brainstorms work. He oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion. " (Outlaw 3) Once the purified Uranium reached New Mexico, it was made into the componen...
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Man Made Destructive Power
828 wordsIn about 450 B. C. , the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic games were held in 776 B. C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus. Many considered the Doric-style temple too simple, so a lavish 40 -foot statue of Zeus was commissioned for the inside. Wealthy Greeks decided to move the statue to a palace in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey). Their effort prolonged its life, as fire later devastated the Olympia temple. However, the new location couldn't keep Zeus eternally safe:...
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Cuban Missile Crisis World War Ii
2,391 wordsThe Soviet Union and the United States, after World War II, began a military competition that led to the buildup of massive nuclear arsenals. Although both countries did not want a nuclear war, they continually built up their offenses to counteract one another. Before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union lived with questions about how the other would react in a nuclear showdown. After the Cuba Crisis, both countries, sure that the other was determined to preve...
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Tells The Story Film Noir
3,624 wordsOverview Fritz Lang (1890 - 1976), an Austrian-born film director, was one of the commanding figures of German and American cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he pioneered entire new genres and modes of cinematic expression. From the distortions of German Expressionism to the malignant brooding of American film noir, Langs films depicted a fatalistic universe where all possibilities are predetermined. Fascinated by the psychology of violence, his movies were populated by murderers, ...
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Type Atomic Bomb First Atomic Bomb
1,920 wordsOn Little Boy Little Boy On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in war. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20, 000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. Hundreds of thousands died and still more were wounded. This was the final triumph that finally brought Japan to surrender. The effects of the bomb are still being seen but there is no doubt...
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Type Atomic Bomb First Atomic Bomb
1,762 wordsThe Manhattan Project On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20, 000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and military scientific brain power brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain ...
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Type Atomic Bomb First Atomic Bomb
1,669 wordsThe Manhattan Project On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B- 29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to about 20, 000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and military scientific brainpower-brilliant, intense, and young, the people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an isolated mountain s...
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