THE ATOMIC BOMB: A TURNING POINT WITHIN ITSELF
The atomic bomb took six years to make and was given as an idea to President Franklin D Roosevelt by the famous physicist, Albert Einstein, as a solution to WW2. The permission for the project was granted and was codename 'The Manhattan Project'. It took $2 billion dollars as well as efforts of many scientists to do all the reseach to make the bomb which was also codenamed as 'The Gadget'. When the bomb was finished, it was tested out in Los Alamos in North Mexico. The blast was so enormus that ablind girl 120 miles away reported seeing the flash of the bomb.
The second time this bomb was used, it was on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. On instant, it killed 66,00 peope were killed and 69,00 people injured. 3 days later, on August 9,1945 fell to the same fate, with at least half their city oblitirated as well and the life toll to be 33,000 and 25,severely injured.
Japan offered to surrender August 10,1945.
The second time this bomb was used, it was on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. On instant, it killed 66,00 peope were killed and 69,00 people injured. 3 days later, on August 9,1945 fell to the same fate, with at least half their city oblitirated as well and the life toll to be 33,000 and 25,severely injured.
Japan offered to surrender August 10,1945.
Uranium Components
The most complicated issue to be addressed in making of an atomic bomb was the production of ample amounts of "enriched" uranium to sustain a chain reaction. In 1939, Uranium-235 was very hard to extract. In fact, the ratio of conversion from uranium ore to uranium metal is 500:1. Compounding this, the one part of uranium that is finally refined from the ore is over 99% uranium-238, which is practically useless for an atomic bomb. To make the task even more difficult, the useful U-235 and nearly useless U-238 are isotopes, nearly identical in their chemical makeup. No ordinary chemical extraction method could separate them; only mechanical methods could work. Next, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier, non-fissionable U-238. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that needed to be done was to put to the test the entire concept behind atomic fission ("splitting the atom").
Authors & Editors
Juliet Akkaoui
Yadinier Dilan-Guadalupe
Catherine Jean-Jacques
Yadinier Dilan-Guadalupe
Catherine Jean-Jacques