The Manhattan Project was a secret project name for the production of the atomic bomb by the United States of America. It was named the Manhattan Project because most of the research was done in New York City. The reason why all of this research ever started was because of the Japanese. They got the United States into the war in the first place. No one except a couple of scientists knew they were really working on the project. There were nearly 125,000 people working on the nuclear bomb but only about 50-70 people actually knew they were working on a weapon. A soviet spy named Klaus Fuchs made his way into the group of scientists. Most government officials didn't know about the project. Outside of a research center there was a sign that stated,
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An atom would have to be split in half to be able to set off the explosion. This explosion is equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT. Scientists had to make sure that the bomb would work when it was dropped too. If it failed then the United States would be in big trouble because Germany would catch on really quickly to what the United States was trying to do. The first atomic bomb ever to be exploded on earth was on July 16, 1946 (which is less than 3 months before the end of World War II.
This explosion made a mushroom cloud towering up nearly 2/5 to the edge of space! When this explosion was tested scientists were put in a bunker 10,000 yards (5 3/5 miles) away from the bomb. The 04 kiloton bomb was buried 104 feet below earth's surface and made a 1/2 mile wide crater. This bomb produced a ton of radiation which means some scientists probably were exposed to more radiation than a person should be in 1 …show more content…
In the United States it is very hard to have a poorly made Nuclear Power Plant because there are inspectors the have to check the plant every so often but in places like Japan they may not necessarily have that. When a disaster accuses with a Nuclear Power Plant it is going to be bad (usually). Nuclear Power Plants have multiple safeties making sure nothing will destroy it but in 2011 a Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a tsunami and exploded and all of the safeties failed. This is due to poor upkeep and things like that. The first nuclear power plant was opened in
An atom would have to be split in half to be able to set off the explosion. This explosion is equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT. Scientists had to make sure that the bomb would work when it was dropped too. If it failed then the United States would be in big trouble because Germany would catch on really quickly to what the United States was trying to do. The first atomic bomb ever to be exploded on earth was on July 16, 1946 (which is less than 3 months before the end of World War II.
This explosion made a mushroom cloud towering up nearly 2/5 to the edge of space! When this explosion was tested scientists were put in a bunker 10,000 yards (5 3/5 miles) away from the bomb. The 04 kiloton bomb was buried 104 feet below earth's surface and made a 1/2 mile wide crater. This bomb produced a ton of radiation which means some scientists probably were exposed to more radiation than a person should be in 1 …show more content…
In the United States it is very hard to have a poorly made Nuclear Power Plant because there are inspectors the have to check the plant every so often but in places like Japan they may not necessarily have that. When a disaster accuses with a Nuclear Power Plant it is going to be bad (usually). Nuclear Power Plants have multiple safeties making sure nothing will destroy it but in 2011 a Nuclear Power Plant was hit by a tsunami and exploded and all of the safeties failed. This is due to poor upkeep and things like that. The first nuclear power plant was opened in