One of the biggest moral conundrums in human history was the creation of the Atomic Bomb. The possibility of these weapons came into fruition soon after the discovery of nuclear fission and the potential energy that can be released. Once the thought of weaponizing this process was considered, many countries wanted to jump on its development and be the first to accomplish this feat, but like all next fields of discovery, had little understanding how to go about the process. Various trials and billions of dollars would be spent by various countries in an attempt to create an Atomic Bomb; this would lead to huge implications and set the global stage from 1950-1990. An Atom Bomb is a nuclear weapon where energy is released via a reaction
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The government gave the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete jurisdiction and control over the project. At the time, this federal agency contained engineers and scientists who could optimize the construction and development of different plants necessary to the development of the project. The agency was allowed to use “eminent domain” in order to obtain the amount of land crucial to the venture. Eminent Domain forced thousands of people living in the areas in which the plants were supposed to be built out of their homes and into other prescribed areas. Nearly twenty different sites were used to build various sites, the most important being Oak Ridges which produced the enriched uranium needed for a bomb and Los Alamos, where the atomic bombs used on Japan were …show more content…
officials did not want to give all the information learned to British and Canadian governments). Even though secrecy was attempted to be maintained, Soviet spies gained access to classified documents about the project. One of the most famous nuclear spies was Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs was a German-born scientist who left Germany for Great Britain because he was a communist sympathizer . He became a prominent figure among British physicists. Surprisingly, Fuchs was able to be transferred to work on the Manhattan Project as a British scientist involved in the British Mission. While working in the Los Alamos site (where the two nuclear weapons used against Japan were developed), his job was to investigate on how to get the fissionable core of the plutonium bomb to implode . Also being present at the first detonation of a nuclear warhead, the trinity test, Fuchs used his position to transfer information learned to the Soviet Union via a channel of various other soviet spies and couriers, many of them American citizens themselves. To the dismay of the United States, this leak information spearheaded the rapid development of the Soviet Union’s own nuclear project. The intelligence allowed for Soviet scientists to avoid various mistakes that Americans had made, and
The government gave the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete jurisdiction and control over the project. At the time, this federal agency contained engineers and scientists who could optimize the construction and development of different plants necessary to the development of the project. The agency was allowed to use “eminent domain” in order to obtain the amount of land crucial to the venture. Eminent Domain forced thousands of people living in the areas in which the plants were supposed to be built out of their homes and into other prescribed areas. Nearly twenty different sites were used to build various sites, the most important being Oak Ridges which produced the enriched uranium needed for a bomb and Los Alamos, where the atomic bombs used on Japan were …show more content…
officials did not want to give all the information learned to British and Canadian governments). Even though secrecy was attempted to be maintained, Soviet spies gained access to classified documents about the project. One of the most famous nuclear spies was Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs was a German-born scientist who left Germany for Great Britain because he was a communist sympathizer . He became a prominent figure among British physicists. Surprisingly, Fuchs was able to be transferred to work on the Manhattan Project as a British scientist involved in the British Mission. While working in the Los Alamos site (where the two nuclear weapons used against Japan were developed), his job was to investigate on how to get the fissionable core of the plutonium bomb to implode . Also being present at the first detonation of a nuclear warhead, the trinity test, Fuchs used his position to transfer information learned to the Soviet Union via a channel of various other soviet spies and couriers, many of them American citizens themselves. To the dismay of the United States, this leak information spearheaded the rapid development of the Soviet Union’s own nuclear project. The intelligence allowed for Soviet scientists to avoid various mistakes that Americans had made, and