Nuclear fission

This extraordinary letter written by Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was written on August 2nd, 1939 to inform the President on the potential plans of the creation of a nuclear bomb. The letter was an official document written by Einstein and mailed out to the white house in Washington D.C. During this time, World War Two was on the brink of being unleashed, and many physicists were studying the effects of Uranium in possible preparation for the war. Furthermore, Albert…

Freshmen 9- India SocoMUN 2015 Nuclear Proliferation Summaries 1. Title: The development of nuclear weapons Adress: Date: Background On October 1939, after World War II the United States had begun a secret project called “The Manhattan Project.” This project was taken place after the suspicion that Germany had already begun working on an atomic bomb, that Hitler would eventually use to gain control over the entire world. By July 16, 1945 the first nuclear powered bomb was tested in a…

. Introduction Superconductivity is widely regarded as one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century. A superconductor, is a metallic alloy or compound that will conduct electricity without resistance below a certain temperature. The major applications of superconductivity pertain to the medical, science and industrial field, and they all require high intensity magnetic fields. Therefore this report outlines superconducting magnets, its benefits of why they are good magnets, as well as an…

Atomic Bomb research started with The Manhattan Project, a project created as the United States feared fascist european countries were already researching in such topics, when fission was discovered during 1938, with this discovery scientist were able to tell that certain radioactive components could combine and form a lethal bomb. The United States the isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239, the reaction of this two isotopes they cause a chain reaction. According to The Columbia Encyclopedia…

Introduction “The Radioactive Boy Scout is about David Hahn who has a love for science. David starts out working on his boy scout badge, but soon turns to nuclear energy. He soon starts on a new project; building a nuclear breeder reactor. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U. S. Government and from industry experts. He spent a lot his time in the garden shed putting things together to help him with his inventions. Key Idea 1 David's parents…

Xram's societies views are quite powerful in shaping their views about life around them. Their societies views are far different when you compare it to our society. Furthermore, their society has a different outlook on their world. Overall, there are a lot of things we can say about Xram's society based on their view about us. An interesting thing that Xram's society noticed on earth, was that there was a slight trace of radioactivity in the earth's atmosphere. They did that by applying…

Have you ever walked through a lava tube? When we were on the Big Island, we got to walk through lava tubes. These tubes are chambers in which lava once flowed. It’s hollow because the lava cooled from the outside in which made it that way. We can’t travel through these on Oahu because we don’t have any lava tubes. All of our volcanoes are inactive. The Big island is better because of the many fun things to do. It is better than Oahu for 3 reasons, they have volcanoes, lava tubes, and…

In August 1945, the most horrific events occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the dropping of the atomic bombs. The whole creation of this highly destructive item began in 1939 with the splitting of a uranium atom. Scientists believed that the energy harvested could be useful to making such powerful weapons. The Manhattan Project was a code name given in 1941 for the devising of the atomic bomb. At one point, there were over 120,000 Americans that were employed in this project, and almost two…

The Sun sometimes has an explosion on its surface called a Solar Storm. Another common name for these explosions is a Solar Flare. Solar Storms is something many scientist question. These explosions have the equivalent power of billions of nuclear bombs. These explosions ram itself into the earth's protective bubble, or atmosphere. They can cause severe problems with satellite connections. Scientists…

Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, and Victor Weisskopf. All of these physicists knew that any German breakthrough or research on nuclear weapons at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin would be a problem not only for their homeland but, for millions of people around the globe. Germany, however, despite its advanced weapons couldn't manage to build an atomic bomb. The German nuclear weapon project, or “Uranium Club” was led by Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist. The project, however, had several…