Uranium

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to provide them with raw materials. These countries provided lifeblood to some U.S. industries and the Congo was no different. The Congo, particularly the Katanga region, had heavy mining industries that managed to produce things such as uranium. Most of the uranium used in the Manhattan project was provided by the Belgian Congo. Once Lumumba brought the Soviet Union into the situation by receiving their aid and weapons in an attempt to stabilize the government, it gave the United States the…

I chose to watch “Cradle to The Grave” for this writing assignment. “Cradle to The Grave” is an action/crime film about these “black diamonds”. The understanding of what these stones were was the basis of the plot-twist in this movie. These stones were deposited in a diamond exchange what was robbed by the protagonists as the beginning of the film. After the heist, the protagonists run into a man played by Jet Li who is an agent for the government of Taiwan, who manufactured these stones. The…

a Ph.D in organic chemistry. Massie was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project by his former mentor after the military denied him entrance. He worked with the Ames Project, which produced purified uranium. Massie would spend three years researching. His task was to find a way to convert uranium isotopes into liquid. After the war, Massie taught at the Naval Academy as a professor of chemistry. His research focused on anti-bacterial agents, malaria, cancer, and more. Massie and several other…

The Manhattan Project was a secret military project created to produce the first US nuclear weapon. Fears that Germany would build and use such a weapon during World War II caused the start of the Manhattan Project which was originally in Manhattan, New York. By the summer of 1945, they were ready test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. President Harry S. Truman was warned by his…

How Nuclear Power is Safe, Profitable, and Non-Proliferate On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl 4 reactor exploded, releasing a huge amount of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. As a result of operator incompetence and a faulty design, 47 people died from thermal burns and radiation (making this the first and only nuclear-reactor disaster to cause human deaths) and around 4000 people contracted thyroid cancer from the incident. As bad as this sounds, findings show that the truth is much…

There are many problems around the Earth that society tends to ignore, whether it be pollution, oil spills, littering, destruction, and etc. These problems to society could be seen either as important or just another day different scenario type of deal. Global warming is something everyone may not agree on, whether it be true or not or are the people trying to protect the planet the ones actually making it harder for us to stay alive on the planet. In today’s society global warming is sometimes…

Esther Lederberg discovered lambda phage and also was able to come up with a way to move bacteria from one petri dish to another. Chien-Shiung Wu helped make the discovery of atomic bombs and conducted many experiments on radiation detection and uranium enrichment. They are more recognized now, but during their lives, most people did not know who they were or what they did. Hopefully, as time goes on, women will no longer have to deal with discrimination against them in their advancement towards…

Chicago to California, to New Mexico to Tennessee. Billions of dollars were involved in this massive undertaking involving over 100,000 people. Germany — under Hitler’s leadership — was running a similar nuclear weapons project lead coined the “uranium project.” In 1938, the groundbreaking discovery of fission was made by three German physicists. Kurt Diebner, an army physicist was employed to investigate the applications of fission along with physicist Werner Heisenberg, who calculated that…

instantly scared the Soviet Union, so they started to develop nuclear weapons. And today Russia and the United States have the most dangerous weapons ever known. In 1939, Allied scientists discovered that German scientists had discovered how to split a uranium atom which could create a destructive bomb. In an effort to beat the Germans to developing this bomb the Allies started the Manhattan Project in 1941. The project employed 120,000 people and cost $2 Billion. On July 16, 1945, the world's…