How Einstein And Ernest Rutherford Helped United States To Invent The Nuclear Weapon

On August 6th of the year 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb was the last U.S. attempt to stop the war and the Japanese offense. The United States was not planning or even pondering the idea of building an atomic weapon until scientist Albert Einstein told the U.S. that Germany might be building an atomic weapon. After the news of this, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commissioned the Manhattan Project. The project had more than 100,000 workers employed and at least $2 billion had been invested into the project. There were 12 top-secret university laboratories used and 37 different test sites. Most of the workers were not informed that they were working on an atomic bomb. The bomb was first successfully

     When the first atomic bomb was detonated in Alamogordo New Mexico on June 16, 1945, all the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project understood the great destructive power of radio-active isotopes. Although the atomic bomb was a very destructive force our world would not be as good without it. Because of the government funding involved in the project coupled with the need for an atom bomb, much research that otherwise may not have occurred took place in the US. The Manhattan project opened the door to nuclear advancements and applications.

On August 2, 1938, in the heat of World War II, Albert Einstein, a physicist born in Germany, sent a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. The letter suggested America to build an atomic bomb before the Nazi Germany does. However, it took more than two months for the letter to reach Roosevelt. On October 19, 1938, Roosevelt agreed, replying, “I found this data of such import that I have convened a Board … to thoroughly investigate the possibilities of your suggestion regarding the element of uranium” (“President Roosevelt's response to Dr. Einstein”). As a result, America held a secret program, code named Manhattan Project, and started to build new, destructive weapons in a laboratory in Los Alamos,

Necessity is the mother of invention. Michael Blow wrote in his book, The History of the Atomic Bomb, that the United States was building an atomic weapon for the main purpose of beating the Germans to the creation of the bomb (95-96). After uranium was used to create atomic fission in Berlin in 1939, Albert Einstein and other scientists wrote a letter to Roosevelt, talking him into government funding for atomic research in America (Foner and Garraty, “Manhattan” n. pag.). In a bit of irony, American leaders believed that the Germans, in the race to create the ultimate weapon, were beating them. In actuality, however, they never got far in their research, and America defeated them by a sizeable amount (Blow 96). In the United States, research for the “Manhattan Project,” the code name for the secret project to use atomic energy to create a bomb, expanded all around the country. This included universities such as Columbia, Princeton, California, and Chicago. While the research had been independent and government funded up until the middle of 1942, the army took over guidance of the project at that point. The possibility of an atomic bomb had become too realistic to keep the research in the private sector (Foner and Garraty, “Manhattan”).

In December of 1941, the United States entered into the second World War after the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Due to these attacks and the dangerous rumors sprouting of German bomb builders, the U.S. decided to put efforts towards constructing the ultimate weapon of mass destruction: the Atomic Bomb. With billions of dollars and over 100,000 people, the Manhattan Project was founded to affirm these efforts by U.S. military and scientists. By the Manhattan Project we saw the unfortunate destruction of Japanese cities, the incredible advances in the world of science, and the threats of the cold war resulting in measures to protect against modern nuclear threats.

Scientists from Germany were making huge progress on the topic of nuclear fission. Fortunately, many of these scientists escaped the authoritarian Germany. These refugees, including Albert Einstein warned the United States about the German’s nuclear weapons capability. Consequently, the United States created the Manhattan Project in 1942 under fears of a nuclear attack by the Germans.

The creation of the atomic bomb began with the Manhattan Project. During World War II, the United States were fearful that Germany would use a nuclear weapon so they created the Manhattan Project

The race to create the first atomic bomb was kicked into high gear. Germany had the lead; in fact, they had one of the greatest chemical engineering industries in the world. The threat of nuclear war was at hand, and the Axis powers had the lead. On May 12, 1942, an order was created to develop a nuclear weapon. As a matter of fact, this was known as the largest secret project the United States government has ever undertaken. Thus, the Manhattan Project was born. This project was introduced into over 30 different locations, including Hanford, Washington, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was a high security, extremely secret project

On Monday July 16th, 1945, a countdown for the detonation of the first atomic bomb took place near Los Alamos, New Mexico. This atomic bomb testing would forever change the meaning of war. As the atomic bomb was detonated it sent shock-waves all over the world. There was endless research done on the bomb in the United States. The research was called The Manhattan Engineer District Project but it was more commonly known as "The Manhattan Project."

At the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II scientist started to develop new ways to to react to wars.Scientist like Julius Robert Oppenheimer with the help of Albert Einstein created the first atomic bomb called the “Little Boy” and the “FatMan”. Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. He was incharge of gather the best minds to develop weapons of mass destruction. Oppenheimer along with 200 other physics developed weapons that would change the world forever.

The Manhattan project began in 1939 and helped to develop the first nuclear weapon that would be used in WWII. Much of the research was performed in oak ridge Tennessee and los alamos New Mexico. The first nuclear weapon tested by the Manhattan project was July 16th 1945 in New Mexico and was referred to as trinity. The same design used in trinity was later used in the US bombings of nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The first atomic bomb was detonated in Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. The American government poured billions of dollars into the development of the atomic bomb. It had been 3 years since the Manhattan Project began. What fueled such an excited push to create such a weapon? In 1939, Leo Szilard wrote a letter and had Albert Einstein sign the letter, to give the contents accreditation, to send to the President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The letter explained that Nazi Germany was stockpiling uranium in hopes of being able to create an atomic bomb. This letter would eventually lead to the creation of the Manhattan project in 1942. America developed nuclear weapons and started a nuclear arms race with the

Early in 1939, the scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets to splitting a uranium atom. The fears of Nazi scientists using that energy to produce a bomb soon spread all over the United States. Scientist Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to fund research for building the first atomic bomb. Roosevelt saw the project as unnecessary, but agreed to proceed slowly. In late 1941, the American effort to build the atomic bomb received its code name of the Manhattan Project.

The Manhattan Project was preceded by a variety of scientific discoveries in the 1920’s and the 1930’s. During this time of scientific discovery, Hitler had been steadily rising to power in Germany, and before long, physicist Leo Szilard and fellow Hungarian Jews Eugene Wigner and Edward Teller became worried. They decided that the President of the United States must be informed about the new fission technology that had been discovered, which they believed was capable of making bombs. The three physicists enlisted the help of Albert Einstein, the foremost scientist in that period, and together they drafted a

During World War II, the race for nuclear arms was in effect and the U.S. had it’s own Nuclear weapons program. It was codenamed The Manhattan Project and its task was to help develop nuclear weapons as well as gather intelligence regarding german nuclear counterparts. The program started around 1939 and grew to many sites spread around the country, it began researching weapons designs and various nuclear technologies not limited to bombs but to reactors as well. The Manhattan project became a very important part of World War II and eventually led to the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima which marked the end of the war.