Manhattan

Cheers to Michael Lerner's brilliant delve into Prohibition in New York City! Dry Manhattan gives a riveting taste of how it was in 1920s Prohibition-`dry' (or not so dry indeed) NYC.Dry Manhattan takes us along through the beginning of Prohibition to it's repeal, catching us up in the Roaring Twenties along the way, but even more notably bringing out the undercurrents -the lead-up to and the backdrop of the `dry', speakeasy-nightclub-bootlegging-flapper-filled scene. Dry Manhattan offers a candid view of the crux of Prohibition, what was really behind it and what was really at peril. As Lerner shows, despite the 18th Ammendment and the `dry' instigators/enforcers trying to make the city (or rather the country) dry, NYC remained wet; the cities…

Journal Entry 3: Lower Manhattan Our third adventure in the course was in Lower Manhattan also known as the Civic Center. Coming from Queens I usually take the N train coming from Astoria to the city so I was running a bit late. I was never great with directions or the subway in general but I impressed myself when I was able to take the train downtown and meet up the rest of the class. I met up with my class in the Civic Center where City Hall stood. I rarely go to lower side of the city…

authorized the creation of the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the US’s response to the research and creation of nuclear weapons in Nazi Germany. The Manhattan Project was led by a scientist named Robert Oppenheimer. The scientists developed two different types of atomic bombs: the gun-type and the implosion device (Manhattan Project). In the gun-type device critical mass was obtained by firing a sub-critical uranium projectile through a barrel toward another sub-critical uranium…

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…

“The Manhattan Project” was a former research project that was responsible for developing the first atomic bombs during World War II, with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada from 1942 to 1945 . General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer were in-charge of the Project . The members of the committee combined their expertise, technology, science and finance. The success of the Manhattan Project was when a uranium bomb called “Little…

The headquarters of the Manhattan project was located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This was during World War II they developed a program that would be able to harness the power of fission. Then later known as the Manhattan project. The goal was to make the first atomic bomb. The reason why the Manhattan is called what it is because their original offices were in and around New York, but then late 1943 they moved down to a town later called Oak Ride, Tennessee. This town was specially designed for…

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.…

drastically, especially for Compton. Compton became involved in the “uranium problem” that led to the evolution of nuclear reactors and soon after, the atomic bomb. On November 6th, 1941, Compton introduced a report on the military uses of atomic energy with the help of physicist, Ernest O. Lawrence. His presentation set forth many possibilities. Lawrence had told Compton about the unearthing of plutonium. This discovery had changed the probability for atomic energy. The commencement of the…

The Manhattan Project was the U.S. government’s research project that produced the first Atomic bomb. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) This project lasted from 1942 through 1945. (Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) It was prompted by the discovery that German radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discover the process of fission in uranium in December of 1938. (Energy.gov) (Atomic Archive) Albert Einstein decided it was necessary to write President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning him that Germany…

created and used in order for the Allied Forces to win the war. The Allies were a group of countries consisting of Russia, Britain, France, the U.S., and China. All of these countries had aligned with one another in order to stop the Axis’s plans. The Axis had consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan and they had planned on taking land from other countries and gaining more power in Europe. The main events that lead to the Manhattan Project were Pearl Harbor and Japan's refusal to sign the…