Picture yourself among World War II. In your hand you hold the biggest advantage that will shift the outcome of the war, the plans to the atomic bomb. Do you sell this secret information to the Germans or Communists for riches or do you leave it to the American’s to stay loyal. This is what Harry Gold and Klaus Fuchs went through in the book “Bomb: The Race to Build-and-Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin.
Now our story starts in 1938 when Otto Hahn accidentally discovers atomic fission during an experiment in his lab, he sets off a chain of events that forever change the world.
As the words spreads through the scientific community, it quickly becomes evident that splitting uranium atoms could be used to create a bomb with massive …show more content…
As the war ramps up, so does the drive to create the world's first atomic bomb. On one end is Col. Groves and Robert Oppenheimer, now leading America's top scientists at the Los Alamos operation in the desert of New Mexico. On the other hand, we have Soviet spies like Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs, and Ted Hall handing over top-secret plans for the science and engineering of the first U-235 bomb. And on a third hand there are the Norwegians: destroying Germany's heavy-water production (which is a key element to their nuclear program).
By 1945, though, the war in Europe is all but over, and the Americans have built and tested their first uranium bomb at the Trinity test site. Now they are ready to use it to end the war with Japan. After much discussion, President Truman (who assumed the position upon the sudden death of FDR) gives the order for Capt. Paul Tibbets and his crew of the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. When that fails to persuade Japan to surrender, the city of Nagasaki is bombed three days later. The world is stunned by the power of the new weapon, and Japan surrenders, ending World War
Now our story starts in 1938 when Otto Hahn accidentally discovers atomic fission during an experiment in his lab, he sets off a chain of events that forever change the world.
As the words spreads through the scientific community, it quickly becomes evident that splitting uranium atoms could be used to create a bomb with massive …show more content…
As the war ramps up, so does the drive to create the world's first atomic bomb. On one end is Col. Groves and Robert Oppenheimer, now leading America's top scientists at the Los Alamos operation in the desert of New Mexico. On the other hand, we have Soviet spies like Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs, and Ted Hall handing over top-secret plans for the science and engineering of the first U-235 bomb. And on a third hand there are the Norwegians: destroying Germany's heavy-water production (which is a key element to their nuclear program).
By 1945, though, the war in Europe is all but over, and the Americans have built and tested their first uranium bomb at the Trinity test site. Now they are ready to use it to end the war with Japan. After much discussion, President Truman (who assumed the position upon the sudden death of FDR) gives the order for Capt. Paul Tibbets and his crew of the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. When that fails to persuade Japan to surrender, the city of Nagasaki is bombed three days later. The world is stunned by the power of the new weapon, and Japan surrenders, ending World War