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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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Tons Of Tnt Power Of One
1,426 wordsThe detonation of a single nuclear bomb or "warhead" would cause a local disaster on a scale that few people in the world have seen and survived. However, it should not be confused with the effects of a nuclear war, in which many nuclear bombs would be exploded. That would cause the end of civilization in the countries concerned, and perhaps over the whole world, as well as radioactive contamination of whole continents, and terrible damage to the environment and ecology. The effect of a single b...
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August 6 1945 000 Tons Of Tnt
1,572 wordsThe Manhattan Project was the code name of the U. S. 's attempt to construct an atomic bomb during World War II. It was named after the Manhattan Engineer District of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, because a lot of it's earlier research was done in New York City. An atomic bomb is a weapon that uses the energy from a nuclear reaction called Fission for its destruction. The idea that mass could be changed into energy was predicted by Albert Einstein in the earlier part of the 1900 's. John D....
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World War Ii Bomb Was Dropped
1,132 wordsThe atomic bomb is a powerful, explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium, in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT. To detonate one of these bombs, enough mass of plutonium or uranium must be provided to reach what is known as "critical mass. " Critical mass is the mass at which the nuclear reactions going on in...
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Cuban Missile Crisis U S S R
1,258 wordsCuban Missile Crisis When given the opportunity to write a research paper on any conflict or battle during recent American History, one has a number of options: World War Two, the War in Vietnam, and the Korean conflict to name but a few. However, I have chosen a brief period of two weeks during which the very existence of the United States was seriously threatened. To most of my generation the Cuban missile crisis is nonexistent. No one tends to look at non-physical actions as ones of any impor...
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000 Tons Of Tnt Atomic Bomb
1,006 wordsQuestion: What did you learn about Nuclear Weapons from reading this book? On August 6, 1945, approximately 70, 000 Japanese lives were ended within a matter of seconds. The United States, under command of President Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. After reading author John Hersey s book entitled Hiroshima, it made me ponder about what would go through my head if I were on Hiroshima soil. What actions might I take? What would I do to sur...
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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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