Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the

first atomic bomb ever. The city went up in flames caused by the

immense power equal to about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a

success. They were an unprecedented assemblage of civilian, and

military scientific brain power-brilliant, intense, and young, the

people that helped develop the bomb. Unknowingly they came to an

isolated mountain setting, known as Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design

and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious

controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became

interested in this topic because of my interest in science and

history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently

studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class. The Hiroshima and

Nagasaki bombings were always taught to me with some opinion, and I

always wanted to know the bomb itself and the unbiased effects that it

had. This I-search was a great opportunity for me to actually fulfill

The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort

during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It

bomb, opposed the bombings and felt that it was immoral to kill that

fission, which elements would not capture the neutrons but would

Another type of atomic bomb was also constructed using the

Arthur H. Compton, director of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, were

that helped end the war in the Pacific. I enjoyed researching the

atomic bomb. Compared to the Hiroshima A-bomb, the one used in

expressed the fear that Hitler would attempt to build a fission bomb.

A-bomb was originally thought to be equivalent to the destructive

equivalent to the destructive power of about 20,000 tons of TNT

of an atomic bomb code-named Trinity (Beyer 55).

Physicists from 1939 onward conducted much research to find

famous scientist during that time, to use his influence and write a

The fissionable material used in the Nagasaki bomb was

and bombing of the atomic bomb. The cold war, nuclear restrictions,

wives knew nothing of their husbands' research (Wood 4).

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