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This project is about the Atomic Bomb, and the Manhatten Project. -
Introduction
this is a time line telling about the atomic bomb and the manhatten project. Also how it was created and why, plus the steps invovld in making it. -
Atomic Bomb
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german working on a simuolar project
that German scientists were working on a similar project and that the British were also exploring the problem. -
Executive Order
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8807, which created the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), with Vannevar Bush as its director. The office was empowered to engage in large engineering projects in addition to research. The NDRC Committee on Uranium became the S-1 Uranium Committee of the OSRD; the word "uranium" was soon dropped for security reasons. -
Approval of atomic bomb
At a meeting between President Roosevelt, Vannevar Bush, and Vice President Henry A. Wallace on 9 October 1941, the President approved the atomic program. To control it, he created a Top Policy Group consisting of himself—although he never attended a meeting—Wallace, Bush, Conant, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, General George Marshall -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project began modestly in 1939, but grew to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Over 90% of the cost was for building factories with less than 10% for development and production of the weapons. -
Designed
1942-1946 direction of Major General Leslie Groves, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. There was two types of atomic bombs, uranium and plutonium. -
working on the bomb
At first, scientists worked in isolation in different parts of the US, unaware of the magnitude of the project in which they were involved. Later, the project was centralised and moved to an isolated laboratory headed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. -
relevent document
Albert Einstein to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection. -
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The actaul bomb -
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personal account
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photots of the bomb going off. -
Japanese and Nagasaki bombing
At approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which occurred by executive order of US President Harry Truman, remains the only nuclear attack in history. In the months following the attack, roughly 100,000 more people died slow, horrendous deaths as a result of radiat -
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the aftermath in japan. -
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a news paper showing the aftermath. -
work cited 1
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0806.html
http://www.archives.com/genealogy/newspapers-atomic-bomb.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/
http://theatomicbomb-aturningpointinus.weebly.com/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb.html -
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