Lower Manhattan

Introduction One of the largest challenges faced by the Manhattan Project was finding a suitable balance between the academic needs of the scientists and the need for secrecy provided by the military. Scientists felt that open communication between them would be crucial to their success. Early in the Manhattan Project life-cycle, scientific correspondences were required to go through a series of military channels to ensure their contents remained protected. The solution to this was to create a…

World War II, Pacific warfront, the United States was developing a means to end the warfront. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, an ambitious lead scientist, worked on the top-secret project called “The Manhattan Project”. Robert Oppenheimer was specialized nuclear fission theories. He worked with the project throughout and with supervision of the U.S. Army. Robert was essential to the developmental process of the atomic bomb. Robert Oppenheimer knew the statics of the destruction impact. He was faced…

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…

Union, and eventually threaten the U.S. itself (Huber). On December 2, 1942, scientists in Chicago succeeded in starting a nuclear chain reaction, demonstrating the possibility of unleashing atomic power (Digital History). By the time the Manhattan Project was near to Wayne Edwards Jr. October 29, 2014 Mrs. Dawn Hayden producing a prototype atomic bomb in late 1944, a year of unexpected victories by the Red Army on the eastern front had sapped the ability of the Wehrmacht to resist…

V-E Day had come and gone. Two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan. The Cold War had sprung up out of the Soviet Union’s paranoia of the spread of capitalism. Spain had just barely escaped developing into an autocracy. Needless to say, the world was changing in 1949, and, in some eyes, it was taking a turn for the worse. Many nations either chose to turn a blind eye to the resurgence of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and Asia or merely succumbed to its wrath, becoming just an…

R/W #7 These Dudes Wrote Some Pretty Dope Essays (A Critique of Three Key Transcendentalism Ideas Outlined by Emerson and Thoreau) Considered the greatest theoretical physicist in history, Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to Jost Winteler, “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”. Einstein refers to another physicist, Paul Drude, who dismissed Einstein’s critique of his electron theory of metals as out of hand. This quote speaks louder than just a feud between…

Peter H. Brothers in the article, “Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare: How the Bomb Became a Beast Called Godzilla,” asserts that Godzilla, the dramatic, King-Kong like, sci-fi movie, was a result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author supports his claim by adding history of WWII, information about Toho Studios and about the life of the director, Ishirȏ Honda. Brothers also includes books and films that influenced the making of Godzilla. The purpose of this piece is to explain the…

Albert Einstein’s Change of Heart: From Pacifism to the Atomic Bomb Beyond doubt, Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century. His name is the first one that comes to mind when one looks for genius. This is not without reason since we owe him most of what we know about space and time. Even though he usually appears with his smiling face, fluffy white hair and pipe in his photographs, when one looks deep into his eyes, it is striking to sense some sort of sorrow…

Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? This is a controversial topic that some would argue it was. However the bombing was not justified. The bomb used was the largest bomb ever used yet in history of welfare and was far more destructive than the bomb used on Pearl Harbor. The United States responded brutally, and unnecessarily. Things could have been handled way differently. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unjustified because many innocent lives were lost, the U.S. could…

With the invention of the atomic bomb and the rise of the nuclear arms race, the post-nuclear war setting of the novel is reflective of the fears of atomic age society. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the power of the atomic bomb was one that generated international shock and awe. Many people were afraid of this powerful weapon, and westerners were especially afraid of the Soviets gaining power to this technology. However, the Soviets surprised the Americans by detonating an atomic…