Los Alamos National Laboratory

Julius Robert Oppenheimer is often referred to as the “father of the atomic bomb.” a title he earned for his role in the Manhattan Project as the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory; where, the first Nuclear bombs used in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II were developed and tested. After the war ended, Oppenheimer was appointed the chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, where he lobbied extensively for the international control of nuclear power to prevent the apparent probability of Nuclear Proliferation and an arms race with the Soviet Union. (Hewlett) Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 to Jewish parents. His father was a wealthy textile merchant and his mother…

Groves’ appointment was a disagreement between the military and scientists regarding the procurement of a production site in Tennessee. Groves showed his strength in administration and project management by obtaining the Tennessee site and a higher priority rating for project materials within two days of his reassignment, effectively resolving the dispute (AJ, 2015). Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory – Project Y The Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was the laboratory…

success that DuPont has now, the project was a great opportunity to those companies to expand their business as industry giants, and those engineers and scientists involved were allowed to explore their possibilities without stressing their financial and social status. The competition between the nations and the contests of experiments and researches brought radical advancement of the technology. In December 1942, Italian Enrico Fermi succeeded to produce a controlled chain reaction in Chicago…

New York Mineralogical Club; they hadn’t realized that Oppenheimer was only twelve years old. Oppenheimer was so intellectually advantaged that he completed both third and fourth grade in one year, and he skipped half of eighth grade. He graduated as valedictorian of his high school class in 1921. He was a versatile scholar in English and French literature, as well as mineralogy. In 1922, Oppenheimer was admitted into Harvard in order to major in chemistry. Upon taking a thermodynamics class…

We see that communication and collaboration fueled the success of the project. However; there was an intentional censorship in communication between the military and government superiors and the Los Alamos laboratory so that the atomic development could be kept as a secret. This led to the most devastating ethical tragedy of the twentieth century. Many people expressed their disagreement with the use of atomic weapons. For example, some people decided to quit the project on humanitarian grounds.…

I think I’m a pretty easygoing and friendly person and I think living here in Los Alamos has made me that way. Growing up in a small town has given me a view that I couldn’t get from living in a big city. I live in Los Alamos New Mexico. One of the first things people notice when they get here is how dry the air is. Up here at 7,300 feet, there is virtually no humidity. We get a little bit when it rains but that doesn’t count. I was born and raised here and I like the dry air. When you breathe…

The opera Doctor Atomic by composer John Adams dramatizes the strenuous anxieties surrounding the Manhattan Project 's creation of the atomic bomb. The opera’s libretto using original sources, features in their own words the described tensions among the scientists involved in making the bomb. The 3-and-a-half-hour production follows the father of the atomic bomb, theatrical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as he wrestles with “the pull between scientific rectitude and mass murder” while…

wife, Ruth Greenglass would move to a residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico to act as a courier to pass information gathered by David to Soviet agents already working in the area around the Los Alamos facilities. Ruth would transport the information provided by David in her purse. She would then meet her Soviet contact at a local grocery store and would identify the individuals sent to meet her by using the side of a Jell-O box. The Soviet agent would have the matching piece of the box and…

were exposed within 10km from ground zero, incidence peaked in 1951 and 1952 in both cities. Keloids was another serious issues that surface as a result of the bombs. Keloids is the overgrowth of scar tissues due to thermal burns, that effected may of the survivors. Many other serious illness surfaces as a result of the exposure of radiation such as blood injuries, secondary radiation illness, A-bomb cataracts, and meatal retardation (unknown). The Manhattan Project ended in 1947, after having…

History on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. This facility was established after the attack on Pearl Harbor to manufacture chemical weapons in support of World War II. After the war ended there was not a need to continue to use this plant to develop chemical weapons and the property was leased out to civilian companies for different uses. Later the area was turned over to the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Company, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to start cleanup of the base. Rocky Mountain Arsenal was later…