Little Boy

the Manhattan project. The project was originally named Development of Substitute Materials. It included over 30 different research and production sites. It took place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Manhattan Project made three bombs: Gadget, Little Boy, and Fat Man. To get people to move there and participate they asked young people if they wanted to help out with the war. That was all they knew…

There were many factors that gave the United States the upper hand in World War 2. One of the biggest ones was the Manhattan Project, which was the program that developed the first atomic bomb that began in 1939. But what is the Manhattan Project? Who was involved? Where and when did they actually use a perfected version of the Atom bomb and what was the aftermath? Though some of this may have been lost in history by the brilliant minds behind the project, we do know some very important…

The Story of the Good Little Boy, written in 1875, is a tale of a boy named Jacob Blivens. Jacob was an obedient child who tried his best to behave as a perfect citizen. For example, Jacob always obeyed his parents, no matter how absurd and unreasonable their demands were, and he always learned his…

It has been almost 70 years since the end of World War II. Today, nuclear power is used in everywhere, and it has become a very familiar thing to people. It is used in nuclear power plants, cancer treatments, radiocarbon dating for research and investigation purpose, and even in every household like smoke detectors. It has been contributing greatly to the modern society, and made people’s life better. However, its fast development is inseparable from the Manhattan Project in the World War II and…

The Manhattan Project was the codename for the classified government inquiry project to build atomic bombs. The scientists needed to work swiftly for the enemy’s attempt to build atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project took a stand by racing against the clock to develop atomic bombs. It also took a stand in World War II, in science, and in politics. World War II took place from 1939 to 1945. The main countries that supported Hitler’s regimes were Germany, Italy, and Japan. The other side…

A lot of our history has consisted of a lot of mistakes that have caused loss of life, hatred, and chaos. These mistakes have mostly been made by people, leaders, and governments who are so caught up in their emotions that they don’t think of the consequences that their actions will cause. In John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Hersey uses our past differences to consider the effects of actions on innocent people, so that nations will only use atomic or highly destructive weapons as a last resort.…

On August 6, 1945, two atomic bombs were launched and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. According to History.com's article on the "Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", over 120,000 people died instantly including the 11,000 that suffered from blast induced injuries and burns due to radiation. Innocent lives such as senior citizens, animals, families with small children and babies died tragically. 90% of the population in those two cities were wiped out. As of 2017, the United States…

T he Hindenburg was built by Germans and there were many people of different nationalities on board before it crashed including a German ministry (Colonel). This disaster started the end of the airship transportation. There was a total of ninety two people on the Hindenburg at the time that it crashed. The Hindenburg had a smoking lounge despite being filled with hydrogen at the time. The gas cells for earlier zeppelins were made of goldbeaters skin (the outer membrane of cattle intestines) the…

Glenn Theodore Seaborg; born April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan was a well-known Chemist. After moving to Los Angeles, California at the age of 10, he graduated valedictorian of his 1929 High School class at David Starr Jordan High School. In 1937, he received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley after enrolling at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1929 for his undergraduate degree. After receiving his Ph. D., Dr. Seaborg spent time as a personal…

most of these buildings suffered extensive damage from interior fires, had their windows, doors and partitions knocked out, and all other fixtures, which were not integral parts of the reinforced concrete frame burned or blown away; the casualties in such buildings near the center of explosion were almost 100%. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T It had more than two thousand times the impact force of the British Grand Slam, which is the biggest bomb ever yet utilized as a part of…