Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the Allied effort to produce the first atomic bomb during World War II. Pressure for the project began in 1939, when two scientists in Berlin accomplished atomic fission in uranium. Believing that Germany might successfully develop the first atomic bomb, Albert Einstein and other physicists persuaded President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a small research program in the field of Nuclear Physics. The project lasted between 1942 - 1946 and cost about $1.8 billion and it involved 125,000 people. Today, the cost of the project would be the equivalent of $20 billion. The project was more than the typical military program to achieve weapons superiority; the Manhattan Project was a scientific breakthrough, it was a breakthrough that effects our lives till this day. In June 1941 the Office of Scientific Research and Development (O.S.R.D), headed by Vannevar Bush, was created to co-ordinate all scientific efforts sponsored by the government, including the work on atomic fission. Under (O.S.R.D) the fission project expanded, involving teams at a number of universities, including Columbia, Princeton, California, and Chicago. By the spring of 1942, these teams had confirmed that atomic fissi
The heat radiation can initiate fires in dry, flammable materials, for example, paper and some fabrics, and such fires may spread if conditions are suitable. Besides heat and the blast, the exploding nuclear bomb has a unique effect it releases penetrating nuclear radiation, which is quite different from thermal radiation. When absorbed by the body, nuclear radiation can cause serious injury. When the explosion is high in the air, the injury range for the radiation is less than for blast and fire damage or flash burns. In Japan, however, many individuals who were protected from blast and burns later suffered radiation injury. -The Japanese had been very cruel to prisoners of War. Some Americans thought they deserved to be taught a lesson. Here is a list of possible reasons: The code name of the atomic bombs and the date it was detonated:
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