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    It is said the idea that America should make an atomic bomb come from a letter sent to the president Franklin D. Roosevelt from Albert Einstein. In the letter, Einstein warned the president of German efforts to build a nuclear weapon. Einstein urged the President to monitor the nuclear developments in the letter. We didn’t exactly monitor it, but instead we made our own… :/ When Einstein asked to be monitoring the efforts of making an atomic bomb by Germany, President Roosevelt didn’t take any…

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    Atomic Bomb History

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    Project. The Manhattan Project was a top secret mission that only the scientists working to produce the bomb, the military, and the president knew about. The leader of the Manhattan Project was, General Leslie Grove, and the head scientist of the project, was J. Robert Oppenheimer. General Leslie Grove ordered that there should be top secret places constructed for the production and brainstorming of the Atomic bomb including: The University of Chicago, The University of California, Oakridge…

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    people working in complete secrecy in many different locations. The Team was comprised of scientists, military personnel, support personnel and many others. The leader of the organization was Colonel Leslie Groves, who was later promoted to Major General and a scientist named Robert Oppenheimer. Groves and Oppenheimer’s immediate priorities were to establish the right team for the job, lead the widely distributed team, establish priorities and ensure success of the critical project that would…

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    S. Army Corps of Engineers so that the assigned scientists could carry out their assignment. In June 1942 the Corps of Engineers’ Manhattan District was originally allowed management of the construction work, and in September 1942 Brig. Gen. Leslie R. Groves was placed in command of all Army activities related to the project. “Manhattan Project” became the code name for research work that would expand across the…

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    The atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (“Little Boy and “Fat Man”) killed a total of roughly 100-110 thousand people. There were more deaths than needed. The U.S. did not inform Japan of the bombing so that the women and children could escape. The U.S. should not have used atomic bombs against Japan to end World War II. What is an atomic bomb? Well, an atomic bomb is a bomb that derives its destructive power from a rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic…

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    Origination and Initiation of the Manhattan Project The development of atomic bomb in the United States started in 1939 when a small number of physicists were alarmed over the possibility of Germany successfully developing an atomic bomb and warned President Roosevelt. Einstein and Szilard wrote a letter on their proposal about atomic bombs and was delivered to the President's aide, General Edwin Watson, by Alexander Sachs, an economist and writer who had a friendly relationship with Roosevelt.…

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    storm could detonate the bomb. Radiation poisoning could affect nearby cities and people to get an incurable cancer. Tension grew as General Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Robert Wilson discussed the possibilities in testing during this storm. The second moment that stood out was the discussion of the effect the stress had on General Leslie Groves’ waistline. The scenes lightened the mood but it portrayed what happens when people eat while they are under stress. Another notable…

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    Plutonium Research Paper

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    triumphantly, “The reaction is self-sustaining!” The first nuclear reactor test was a success. Searching for Help Now, with the news of a successful nuclear reactor test under his belt and the project under need of supplies to begin work. General Leslie Groves started looking around for people to help design, create, and build parts to a bomb that nobody even knew how to build. But, as most of the Manhattan Project would turn out to have to work as, things had to be built before tested…

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    68 civilians (“The Bombing”). Roosevelt called December 7th, “a date which will live in infamy” (“Hiroshima”).This act began the war in the Pacific. Three days after the attack Japanese allies Italy and Germany also declared war on the United States. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, Japan began a massive campaign throughout the Southeast Asia-Pacific region to seize territories (“Hiroshima”). The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor provoked a declaration of war by the United States Congress on the…

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    Seaborg, an American 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…

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