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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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1,094 words... our foes use it against the United States. Now that we are at the hands of the Non-proliferation Treaty and the Test Ban Treaty, we no longer can make and / or test nuclear weapons. (ref. 5) This should help end ideas about nuclear war and other disadvantages to having plutonium in other countrys's up plies. Now that we have recognized three important uses for Plutonium and that the threat of nuclear war is no longer as feasible as before, we should recognize the disadvantages of this great ...
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318 wordsAn American Chemist named Glenn T. Seaborg discovered plutonium in 1941 at Berkeley University in California. The discovery of Plutonium was not announced until 1946 because America was at war with Japan and Germany. Plutonium was named after the planet Pluto, after the planet Neptune in the solar system and Neptune gave its name to Neptunium. Plutonium is a silvery metal that turns yellow when exposed to air. It is warm to the touch due to the releasing radioactive energy from it. The atomic nu...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich York Harcourt Brace
3,548 wordsYou Nuclear Proliferaiton Nuclear Energy You are watching the control panels and gages for rector two. Sitting comely you think about how easy your job is. It is a joke! All day you sit around and watch the gages for reactor number two just to make sure they maintain their settings. You dont even need to look at the gages either because a computer automatically regulates them without you. Life is so good. Suddenly all the sirens go of and the gages and displays spin wildly in every direction. Th...
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1,764 wordsJust before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Winner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium- 235 which might be used to build an atomic bomb. Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States effort to develop the atomic bomb before th...
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Nuclear Power Plants Coal And Oil
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1,999 wordsPlutonium, Our Countrys Only Feasible Solution Abstract: Should we begin to manufacture one of the most destructive and infamous substances on the face of the Earth once again? The engineers say yes, but the public says no. The United States stopped making this element with the ban on manufacturing nuclear weapons. But with the continuing problem with our ever-diminishing energy sources, some want us to begin using more nuclear energy and less energy from natural resources. I m going to discuss ...
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Piece Of Literature Atomic Bomb
4,430 wordsThe Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II American Literature Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Gioielli 1 Rob Gioielli Mrs. Mcfarlansenior English 6 Dec. 1994 Then a tremendous flash of light cut across the sky. Mr. Tanimoto has a distinct recollection that it traveled from east to west, from the city toward the hills. It seemed like a sheet of sun. +John Hersey, from Hiroshima, pp. 8 On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. On that day the United States of Am...
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