The Atom Bomb
BOOM! The first detonation of an atomic bomb was on July 16,1945 on Hiroshima, Japan . That was one of the reasons why I picked this topic. Another reason was that there is lots of information on the atomic bomb out there and the last reason is I wanted to know why the atomic bomb has great explosive power. The main part of an atomic bomb is of course an atom. So that is what I'm going to say first. Atoms are everything. It is your paper, your house, your clothes, and everything else. Atoms is the smallest thing on earth. You can fit a million atoms in about the width of a piece of paper. You can't see them with the naked eye or with the best microscope in the world. The sciencists use theories and tests to know that they are there. Atoms are made up of three things; electrons, proton(s),and neutrons. If you combined proton(s) and neutrons you get the nucleus of the atom. Then the nucleus is surrounded by a shell. That shell is made by an electron(s) spinning around the nucleus so fast it makes that shell. Each shell can only hold a certain amount of electrons, this graph will show you that. The proton is positivtly charged while neutrons have no charge. The proton attracts the electron. Th
The manhattan project was a code name for the US effort in World War two to create an atomic bomb. It was named after the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, based in New York City where most of the research was done, but it mainly took place in New Mexico. The history of the Manhattan project remained classified for many years. The project lasted four years, between 1942-1946, and cost about 1.8 billion dollars( today it cost about 20 billion dollars). The project produced three bombs: the first one was known as "Gadget", was used as a test model; the second was named "Little Boy", dropped over Hiroshima, and the third was "Fat Man" detonated over Nagasaki.
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