Who Invented The Atomic Bomb

The most lethal weapon ever used and known to mankind is the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb has taken hundreds of thousands of lives throughout many occasions. It was made seventy years ago from today, here in the United States, with the help of scientists from around the world. During World War II, the Germans made advancements in the making of nuclear weaponry. This led to scientists to collaborate in the United States and create a nuclear weapon before Germany did. The race to create the world’s first atomic bomb between the United States and Germany began. Why did the United States make the atomic bomb? Well, science communities throughout the world found out that the Germans had made progress in making the atomic bomb. For the United States …show more content…
The atomic bomb research was first done at few universities including Columbia University, University of Chicago, and University of California at Berkeley. The United States could not allow the Allies’ enemies, the Axis powers, to hear about the Manhattan Project. Therefore, the project was kept top secret through a select group of trusted people who knew about it. In fact the project was kept so secret that even Vice President Truman had never heard of the project until he became the president. Unfortunately, President Roosevelt died before the completion of the Manhattan Project, so Truman became the new president. Inevitably, a spy from the Soviet Union, Klaus Fuchs, had infiltrated the top group of scientists; although, no evidence of the secret being spread from the Soviet spy has been documented. During the research, there was a major scientific breakthrough. The breakthrough was that the scientists produced the very first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Consequently, after the breakthrough, there was a great increase in funding and speed of research. Nuclear facilities were built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. One of the main atomic bomb assembly plants was in Los Alamos, New …show more content…
At Trinity Site, close to Alamogordo, New Mexico, the scientists prepared themselves for the blast of the atomic bomb. Yet, no one was truly prepared for the result of the bomb. There was a blinding flash that could be seen up to two hundred miles away and a mushroom cloud forty thousand feet in the air. In addition to the noticeable and suspicious cloud and flash, windows were blown out of homes all the way up to one hundred miles away from the Trinity Site. Surely many people questioned what had happened and they did. As a cover up for the gigantic explosion, the government reasoned that a giant ammunition dump had caused the immense explosion. After the success of the Manhattan Project, the world had entered the nuclear age. With the accomplishment of making the atomic bomb, American scientists and engineers demonstrated that a war can be won through research and not solely