August 2nd
1939 just before the outbreak of world war ll a letter written by
Professor Einstein was sent to the American president by the name of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, this letter contained information about the on
goings in Nazi Germany. The Nazis were trying to purify U-235 which could be used to build an atomic bomb.
Since
the letter was sent the Americans were working on they’re own atom
bomb, they called it project Manhattan. Over a time period of six
(1993-1945 ) years project Manhattan cost about 2 billion dollars.
A
massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. H.C. Urey, along with his associates and colleagues at
Columbia University, devised a system that worked on the principle of
gaseous diffusion. Following this process, Ernest O. Lawrence (inventor
of the Cyclotron) at the University of California in Berkeley
implemented a process involving magnetic separation of the two isotopes.
Following the first two processes, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier non-fissionable U-238 by their mass. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that was needed to be done was to put to test the entire concept behind atomic fission.
Following the first two processes, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier non-fissionable U-238 by their mass. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that was needed to be done was to put to test the entire concept behind atomic fission.
J.
Robert Oppenheimer was the key force behind the Manhattan Project. He
literally ran the show and saw to it that all of the great minds working
on this project made their brainstorms work. He was amongst those who
oversaw the entire project from its conception to its completion.
Finally the day came when all at Los Alamos would find out whether or not The Gadget (code-named as such during its development) was either going to be the colossal dud of the century or perhaps end the war. It all came down to a fateful morning of midsummer, 1945.
Finally the day came when all at Los Alamos would find out whether or not The Gadget (code-named as such during its development) was either going to be the colossal dud of the century or perhaps end the war. It all came down to a fateful morning of midsummer, 1945.
As
many know, atomic bombs have been used only twice in warfare. The first
and foremost blast site of the atomic bomb is Hiroshima. A Uranium bomb
(which weighed in at over 4 & 1/2 tons) nicknamed "Little Boy" was
dropped on Hiroshima August 6th, 1945. The Aioi Bridge, one of 81
bridges connecting the seven-branched delta of the Ota River, was the
aiming point of the bomb. Ground Zero was set at 1,980 feet. At 0815
hours, the bomb was dropped from the Enola Gay. It missed by only 800
feet. At 0816 hours, in the flash of an instant, 66,000 people were
killed and 69,000 people were injured by a 10 kiloton atomic explosion.
Reference/Source: Outlaw Labs
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