Abdulla Waheed
Mr Cardillo
Period 6/7
21 May 2015
The Manhattan Project took place during World War II and its purpose was to create a bomb so devastating it would rip part and incinerate anything in its path. This project was created to aid America in WWII and it was a success creating one of the most devastating bombs ever used by mankind, the atomic bomb. This bomb was the pinnacle of all bombs. its destructive power matched that of twenty-thousand tons of TNT. The Manhattan project started when Pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design …show more content…
This changed the course of history as it gave America an advantage no one else had. The bomb was intended to be used on Germany in WWII but by the time it had been built .Germany had lost the war. Instead President Harry Truman Decided to bomb Japan .On August 6, 1945, Three B29s took off from Tinian with the Enola Gay carrying the weapon and The Great Artiste carrying instrumentation for blast measurement and post-explosion investigation, and Necessary Evil carrying photography equipment. (weebly 3) The “Enola Gay” dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and the explosion killed over 50,000 people.the people who survived said they say a bright light,and a huge mushroom cloud. Japan still refused to surrender even after the United States dropped the bomb so the US dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki The second bombing killed 40,000 people and destroyed about one third of the city. . The effects of the bomb on society were demoralizing. Many people walked around in fear knowing that in an instant everything around them could be vaporized. this led many to build nuclear bomb shelters. this also led all the schools to have nuclear bomb drills where the students would hide under their desks. the nuclear bomb changed society altogether instilling fear into the hearts of …show more content…
during the production of the bomb, toxic chemicals were released into the atmosphere and the ground . “In June 1944, evidence surfaced of potentially dangerous levels of radioactivity in the mud and water at White Oak Creek and White Oak Lake located near the K-25 Plant. District officials notified the Medical Section to investigate and determine the danger involved. Over the next few months, scientists tested the water and mud radioactivity and analyzed the amount of contaminants present in a small sample of fish taken from the Lake. In October, Dr. Stafford Warren, director of the Medical Section, reported that the dangers to fish, to workers on the river, and to people drinking the water and eating the fish was minimal. Nonetheless, the discovery of effluent material in the lake motivated the Medical Section to propose a program to monitor radiation levels at the sites and enact necessary measures to ensure levels did not
Mr Cardillo
Period 6/7
21 May 2015
The Manhattan Project took place during World War II and its purpose was to create a bomb so devastating it would rip part and incinerate anything in its path. This project was created to aid America in WWII and it was a success creating one of the most devastating bombs ever used by mankind, the atomic bomb. This bomb was the pinnacle of all bombs. its destructive power matched that of twenty-thousand tons of TNT. The Manhattan project started when Pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design …show more content…
This changed the course of history as it gave America an advantage no one else had. The bomb was intended to be used on Germany in WWII but by the time it had been built .Germany had lost the war. Instead President Harry Truman Decided to bomb Japan .On August 6, 1945, Three B29s took off from Tinian with the Enola Gay carrying the weapon and The Great Artiste carrying instrumentation for blast measurement and post-explosion investigation, and Necessary Evil carrying photography equipment. (weebly 3) The “Enola Gay” dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and the explosion killed over 50,000 people.the people who survived said they say a bright light,and a huge mushroom cloud. Japan still refused to surrender even after the United States dropped the bomb so the US dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki The second bombing killed 40,000 people and destroyed about one third of the city. . The effects of the bomb on society were demoralizing. Many people walked around in fear knowing that in an instant everything around them could be vaporized. this led many to build nuclear bomb shelters. this also led all the schools to have nuclear bomb drills where the students would hide under their desks. the nuclear bomb changed society altogether instilling fear into the hearts of …show more content…
during the production of the bomb, toxic chemicals were released into the atmosphere and the ground . “In June 1944, evidence surfaced of potentially dangerous levels of radioactivity in the mud and water at White Oak Creek and White Oak Lake located near the K-25 Plant. District officials notified the Medical Section to investigate and determine the danger involved. Over the next few months, scientists tested the water and mud radioactivity and analyzed the amount of contaminants present in a small sample of fish taken from the Lake. In October, Dr. Stafford Warren, director of the Medical Section, reported that the dangers to fish, to workers on the river, and to people drinking the water and eating the fish was minimal. Nonetheless, the discovery of effluent material in the lake motivated the Medical Section to propose a program to monitor radiation levels at the sites and enact necessary measures to ensure levels did not