Plutonium

The Manhattan District was established on 18 June 1942, was meant to appear to outsiders as another Army Corps of Engineers district, it was named after the city where its headquarters was located. There were three primary Manhattan Project sites - Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico - accounted for the bulk of the development and assembly work for the bomb, though important work took place in many places around the country. Manhattan was the location of key…

The revolutionary breakthrough of the fission of atoms created a new field of science that changed the world. In 1945, the splitting of an atom was accomplished when scientist, of the Manhattan Project, tested the first atomic bomb. A few months after the first bomb was tested, America was ready for war. The American Air Force began their journey to Japan where they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and, a few days later, on Nagasaki. The weapon caused a widespread worry about the bombs…

Einstein was born on March 14, 1829, also now known as pi day. He was born in the country of Germany. Einstein was a fan of music. He knew how to play the violin and piano. Einstein moved to America in the year of 1933. He was there given a professorship in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein had done many things in his life. One of his major accomplishments was the “theory of relativity.” This theory gave people a better understanding of space, time, and gravity. He also published a series of…

I am the world’s most famous and greatest scientist, also known as Albert Einstein, and the United States would not have been successful without me. I played a significant role in producing the atomic bomb even before the United States Army was informed about it. I influenced the beginning of the Manhattan Project by notifying President Franklin Roosevelt about the possibility of a nuclear bomb that could incinerate millions of citizens. I was informed about the newest discoveries in fission and…

The Construction of the world's first ever nuclear powered submarine/ship began on December 12th of 1951. 18 months of construction the NAUTILUS was finally launched on January 21, 1954. September 30, 1954 the NAUTILUS became the first commissioned nuclear powered ship in the United States Navy. On the morning of January 17, 1955 the first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, ordered all lines to cast off and signal the memorable and historic message, "Underway On Nuclear Power."…

Leo Szilard once said “Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me” . Szilard was born in Hungary but somehow worked with the U.S.A. in World War Two. In the course of his life he went to many universities and studied many subjects until finally settling on physics. Szilard helped create the Atom Bomb, used persistence to innovate ways to help win World War Two and illuminate the world by changing its perspective on warfare. Leo Szilard was an…

Zombie fascination after World War II The recent fascination with the apocalypse and zombie scenarios can be traced back to the advent of nuclear warfare during World War II, as argued by Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar. After the destructive events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the horrific violence of the Holocaust and World War II, human collective visions of the future were drastically altered and the disturbing realisation of human capacity for mass violence was brought…

Radon is a colorless chemically-unreactive inert gas. You cannot see it, smell it or taste it. The atomic radius is 1.34 angstroms and it is the heaviest known gas. Radon is nine times denser than air. Because it is a single atom gas it easily penetrates many common materials like paper, low density plastic, most paints, and building materials like gypsum board, concrete block, wood paneling, and most insulations. Radon was discovered by Ernest Rutherford and Robert B. Owens in 1899.…

Eisenhower and Obama can both be considered great speakers in addressing the respective issues during their time of election in vastly different time periods. For Eisenhower, the current concern was WWII and the creation of the atomic bomb. For Obama, the concern was attracting white voters along with those of his own race to vote for him. Obama appeals more to the audience’s emotions in terms of ethos and pathos while Eisenhower uses more logos along with pathos to appeal to his listeners.…

That day, 140,000 people died. That day, light erupted from the ground, shattering both people’s lives and the air itself. That day.. history was irrevocably changed, and the future was set into an era of dimming lights. That day, the entirety of the world was set into a new age of paranoia and fear, the fear that at any moment, they could be wiped out instantly. That day was August 6. 1945, when for the first and only time since Nagasaki, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by America.…