Albert Einstein Constructing The First Atomic Bomb

Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the manufacturing of the atomic bomb, but his research and theories were critical to advancing its development. The atomic bombs built back during World War 2 that were dropped on Japan depended on nuclear fission to create their explosions. Nuclear fission is the splitting of a heavy atom into smaller pieces. This process releases an enormous amount of energy. The bomb (Little Boy) dropped over Hiroshima worked by firing a mass of uranium-235 into another mass of uranium-235, which created a chain reaction. The bomb (Fat Man) dropped over Nagasaki worked by placing plutonium-239 into the center of a hollowed-out sphere of intense explosive devices. These explosive devices would be triggered

If Albert Einstein had foreseen the aftermath of his weaponry, he would surely have torn up his work, in an effort to save not only those in Japan, but the rest of humanity itself. The atomic bombings that took place in these two cities sent off a wake up call, to the entire world. The United States was able to put forth a worthy image of themselves, and show off their massive power and destructive abilities. But should they have? This is where “With great power, comes great responsibility,” comes into play. Many believe that possessing inevitable power shouldn’t always lead you to use it. There may be other strategies to get your point across. Destruction and pain will always send a message, and it will open everyone’s eyes. However, something

Throughout all of history, humans have been creating weapons for waging war against one and another or to protect something that is important to them. Over time, the weapons that humans use have gone from just a simple wooden club, to a forged sword, and to high power firearms. However, throughout history none of the weapons created led to a stalemate among any of the world’s super powers until the mid twentieth century with the development of the atomic bomb by the United States and the Soviet Union. The reason why the development of the atomic bomb led to a stalemate has to do with the idea of mutually assured destruction. The idea behind mutually assured destruction is that if one-country attacks with atomic weapons then the country being

In 1933, Einstein took on a job at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and never went back to Germany. It was there that he would spend the rest of his life working on a field theory which was an all-embracing paradigm meant to identify varied laws of physics. Other European scientists also left regions threatened by Germany and immigrated to the states, with there being concern over Nazi strategies to create an atomic

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” -Albert Einstein was the most famous physicist in the world. Albert Einstein was one of the many members of the Manhattan Project and was also intel to the President. He was actually one of the many causes for the project after sending president Roosevelt a letter telling of NAZI germany’s plans. Okay so most people know what came out of this project and it’s success. Right? But what about the dangers that came with it and it’s product? My paper will prove that the Manhattan Project was the most deadliest project of the 20th.

Through wonder and complicated thinking Einstein gave a strong argument on how space and time could be curved. By Einstein creating this theory he completely altered the way we could think of space and time. Einstein pictured space as a three-dimensional version of a thin rubber sheet. If you put a heavy object on the sheet, it makes a dent, and therefore an object's path would be affected by that dent. So, planets orbit the sun because “the space around the sun is curved in the 2-D equivalent of a funnel or basin”.( http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/20th_people_einstein.html) “The curvature of space results in the effects of gravity. This notion of curved space becomes more tangible . . . occurs because its curvature of space”. (http://www.fi.edu/learn/case files/einstein/curved.html) Einstein introduced this special theory of relativity because it dealt only with the special case of motion in frames of reference that are neither increasing nor decreasing to the viewer. In other words, “the frames of the reference are . . . a consistent speed in a straight line”. (Jake Goldberg pg.47) Einstein also changed how we now think about gravity itself! He came up with his own theory of gravity as well, called Equivalence Principle. “Einstein said that when he was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: 'If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.' I was

World War II one of the biggest wars, occurring between the years of 1939 through 1947 in which World War II was the cause of over 60 million deaths. A war between the Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan v.s. the Allies, France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Coming close towards the end of the war United States and Japan are at war. The United States have taken over the war and Germany has surrendered, only Japan was left to surrender to completely end the war. Japan refuses to surrender and the Unites States grows with desperation to end the war. Especially after the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, which was a surprise attack from Japan to destroy aircraft carriers, but they failed. This attack angered

Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein was the firstborn child of Hermann and Pauline Einstein, a secular Jewish couple. Upon failing in the industry of featherbedding, Hermann moved the family to Munich, Germany in order to start a new business in electrical engineering with his brother Jakob. Two years after Albert was born, his sister, Maria, came into the picture, later becoming the best friend of his childhood. It is documented that Einstein’s first interaction and true spark of major interest in science came at a rather young age of five or six, when his father showed him a compass. He was intrigued by the fact that no matter which way you spun it, it pointed in the same direction. It was not long after that Einstein began schooling in Petersschule (Peter’s School) in Munich. Moving through Peter’s School with not much difficulty, but moreover with a simple discomfort of the military style formality, he joined the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich at the age of ten. Despite his genius for which he is revered today, Einstein struggled in elementary school. In fact, Einstein had not learned to speak until the age of three, a rather late time relative to most children. He found school rather dull and stiff as it had a stronger focus on Latin and Greek as opposed to his talents and interests, science and mathematics.

What started out as a secret, yet modest research project, headed by the United States Army Corp of Engineers in the borough of New York City, soon escalated into the largest and most expensive operation the country had ever performed. With a cost of over two billion dollars what was to become known as the Manhattan Project employed tens of thousands of people who lived and worked in three top-secret locations. The project consisted of the country’s best and brightest scientists. All of whom were in an urgent race against their German counter-parts. With World War II raging in Europe everyone involved was acutely aware that the ruthless dictator Hitler would not stop until his scientists had created the worst weapon the world had ever seen. A weapon of mass destruction. And so, in order to defeat Germany and save millions of lives the Manhattan Project scientists strove to win the race to build the world’s first atomic bomb.

Atoms, when thinking of this word the terms of protons, electrons and, neutrons come to mind. Also what comes to the mind of every chemist and most people are the names of J.J Thompson, E.R Rutherford, Robert Millikan, and of course Albert Einstein. These people made some astonishing advancements in the work of atoms from Thompsons’s cathode ray experiment to Einstein’s photoelectric effect experiment and what they hold in common is that these are the great experiments that learn and understand atoms to this very day.

He is renown as the “Father of solid state Physics”, the famous 20th century scientist and a symbol of intellectual independence and leadership (Cardona, 2005). Albert Einstein the Jewish mathematician and physicist was born on March 14,1879 at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany. He is acclaimed for his theories in physics specifically the theory of special relativity, the general theory of relativity and the photoelectric effect (Howell, 2017). His special relativity theory summarised in the equation E=mc2 is widely known even among those who don’t understand physics. It’s these theories that earned him the international accreditation and acclaim in physics as the Nobel Prize winner in 1921(Parker 2007).

The creation of atomic bombs involves the combination of many different theories. In 1905, Albert Einstein, a German physicist, discovered that large amounts of energy could be released from small amounts of matter. He concluded this discovery with the equation of E=mc2, which states that energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Due to this discovery, atomic bombs were identified as getting their explosive energy from fission reactions. Fission was discovered on December 17, 1938, by German scientist Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman. A year later, fission was explained more in depth by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. Nuclear fission can either be expressed through a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay and is a process in which the

The third paper was on electrodynamics of moving bodies. It became known as the theory of relativity. It explains how matter and radiation interact with one another. With these well thought out papers Albert Einstein had solved the unanswered problems of the world. He wanted to learn more and began to try and answer the questions of the universe. In 1939 Einstein connected with other scientists and wrote a letter to the president, Franklin D.

In the afternoon of August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima no longer resembled the bustling urban area it was just a few short hours before. At a quarter after eight in the morning, an atomic bomb fell from the sky. A bomb small enough to carry on a plane was powerful enough to destroy five square miles of city (¨Manhattan Project¨ par. 10). John Hersey writes in Hiroshima about what a priest saw just after the bomb exploded two miles away from him. A priest saw clouds of smoke rising from fires that started after the explosion (Hersey 18). Creating the atomic bomb which caused so much destruction was a process which involved many people. Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, and Julius Oppenheimer were men whose work brought the beginning to the project.

On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was raided and bombed, the United States of America declared war on the Japanese Empire that now spans from Southeast Asia to the Western Pacific Ocean. America became furious with this righteous act so close to the mainland resulting in Douglas MacArthur’s evacuation of the Philippines and with a war strategy that became known as “Island Hopping”, the retaking a single island at a time and building an airfield there, allowing easier access to the next and following islands needed to be invaded, and this tactic worked, but the closer the American Pilots got to Japan’s mainland, the harder it became to invade the islands. At one point, there was no more progress being made and only casualties, which is when the consideration of brute force came into conversation between Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin.