Hanford Site

Honshu. “ The Navy Department estimated that the total losses to America would be between 1.7 and 4 million with 400,000 to 800,000 deaths....The same department estimated that there would be up to 10 million Japanese casualties.” [The History Learning Site, 19 May 2015]. As the US had experienced in the Pacific war, an invasion of Japan would result in high amounts of casualties on the Allied side due to the Japanese mind set of fighting to the death. If this operation had gone under way it…

chemist proposed the use of plutonium. Plutonium was another fissile material. A fissile material was one that could sustain the nuclear chain reaction of fission. Plutonium was easier and cheaper to produce than enriched uranium. Groves had the Hanford Site built in Washington State to produce plutonium. Plutonium could be used to build bombs faster, fast enough to test them, giving them an edge over the uranium type bomb. However a plutonium variant of the uranium bomb would not work. The…

From 1942 to 1946, the development of the Manhattan Project and the decision by President Harry S. Truman to drop the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese to bring an end to the Pacific War was justified in terms of diminishing both casualty and expenditure costs for both countries. Paragraph 1: Birth of the Manhattan Project In order to escape persecution in Germany, scientists such as Albert Einstein fled their homes to the United States in an effort to warn the United States government of German’s…

without controversy. The division of responsibility in maintaining the river’s development between public and private agencies has been a problem, as well as sharing power-generating revenues and costs with Canada, the loss of traditional Indian fishing sites, and the interest rates of government investments in hydroelectric power. Ultimately, human development has degraded the quality of the Columbia River for fish and animal life, while the greater influence of global warming means that the…

The Pacific Northwest was once full of an abundance of untapped resources, it was barely populated and was the definition of a hinterland. As the Pacific Northwest started to become known and resources started to become majorly exploited and shipped, we slowly become what we are now, not a hinterland. After all the overuse and misuse of the land we are not and will never hinterland again. The definition of a hinterland is defined as parts of the country that is less developed and…

achievement, funds were given more freely, and the project moved forward at a great speed. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington (Manhattan). The main assembly plant was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer was put in charge to put the pieces together at Los Alamos (Manhattan). On July16, 1945, at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, a bright flash visible for 200 miles lit up the sky. A mushroom cloud reached 40,000 feet, blowing out…

Perhaps one of the biggest breakthroughs in scientific history is the discovery of atoms, and later the splitting of atoms. This eventually lead to the use of atomic energy and its use to create a weapon far more destructive than any of those before it, the atomic bomb. This was a major breakthrough for the scientific and military community. In the 1940s, the United states created two atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changed the…

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…

Within the first few decades of the 20th century, the science of physics was completely reformed with new understandings of the nature of atoms. In 1898 France, Paris, Pierre and his wife Marie Curie discovered a new substance within an ore of Uranium that they named radium that emitted large amounts of (as we now call) radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy Identified that atoms can break down and turn into different elements. For example if a block of uranium were left alone for…

President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On December 7, 1941 Japanese attacked pearl harbor with planes in Hawaii territory bombing the united states naval base that is in pearl harbor, this attacks bombing nearly killed more than 2,300 Americans, in the process destroying the American battle ship U.S.S. over 2,335 military personnel were killed this included 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines, and 218 army, and 68 civilians. The total of deaths…