The Nuclear Of Uranium And The Atomic Bomb

As for the World War II, it began in 1939 till 1945. This war went on for 6 years. The war began in Europe after the attack in Poland, Germany. World War II started because Hitler began to take over Europe and Germany. Adolf Hitler and his partnership with Italy and Japan opposed the Soviet Union. The conflict during World War I was between the Axis powers and the Allied powers. The war ended after Japan had finally surrendered in 1945. Over 60 million people

The birth of the Atomic bombs was during WWII, when the nations around the world were fighting against each other, due to disagreements between one another. At the beginning of the war, America was at a stalemate because they did not want to get involved in the war. Even though they were not involved in the war they were helping friendly allies with food supplies and ammunition. And then there was island to the east of the Korean peninsula, also known as Japan, who suddenly decided to send a full blown aerial attack on american territory. In december 7, 1941 Japan launched a full blown attack on Pearl Harbor, an American naval base. This was the turning point of WWII because this spark America to enter into a war. What the enemy did not know, was that the U.S. had a secret under their hands, and that was the weapon that would bring an end the war. An According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. the first Atomic Bomb was build in Los Alamos New Mexico during WWII under the Manhattan Project ("Atomic Bomb." Encyclopaedia Britannica”). But after the bombs were drop the suffering of the Umany people, gave way for the questioning of the actions, some of these questions were : was it the right thing to do, what effect it had in the places that the bomb were dropped, how was America affected before, during, after and the bombs were dropped, what effect did the people had after experiencing the explosion, but the most important

With the start of World War II the race for the first atomic bomb started. With Germany under Hitler’s reign, the Nazis began separating uranium to form the first atomic bomb to control the world. The push for the United States build the first atomic bomb began with this knowledge. With the help of several scientists the United States succeeded in building the atomic bomb first. Two atomic bombs were used; a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki. Along with the many deaths were six stages of A-bomb illness which includes acute stages, atomic bomb trauma, A-bomb radiation illness, radiation blood injury at lethal dosage, blood injuries, and secondary radiation illness. Seven unhealed scars were also an effect of the atomic bombs that includes keloids, A-bomb cataracts, leukemia, cancers, chromosome changes, exposure in utero and microcephaly, and genetic surveys. Regulations and guidance were set in place soon after the bombings to protect the people of the world based on the information that was gathered and it has changed over the years based on the new information that was learned. With the use of the atomic bombs in World War II, a lot of pain and suffering was caused, but a great deal of information was learned to help protect future generations from radiation.

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) succeeded in splitting the uranium atom and the Nobel Committee later awarded him the 1938 prize for physics. At Columbia

Early 1939, the scientist of the world learned that German scientist had discovered a way to spit a uranium atom, created

World War 2 was one of the worst wars in world history. The allied forces, the U.S., France, China, Russia, and Great Britain, were at war against the axis powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan, to stop the nazis from taking over the world. There were many bad events and battles that happened over the 6 year time span of the war; but one of the worst has to be the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at the end of the war. Some people say that the U.S. Needed to drop the bombs to save American and Japanese lives. Some think otherwise, that the bombs were not nessecary to end the war. Even the scientists who created the bombs believed it shouldn't have been used. Once the bomb was created, there was controversy

Even before the outbreak of War, the United States was concerned with a fascist regime in Europe researching in nuclear weapons. In retaliation, the United States began to fund an atomic weapon development program which became known as “The Manhattan Project” led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Over the next several years, the Manhattan project started obtaining key materials such as Uranium-235 and Plutonium and testing prototypes until they reached a working model (Coroner).

World War II was the most destructive and deadliest war in history. There were about eleven million people killed just in the holocaust. World War II started on September 1st, 1939 after Germany invaded Poland. Three days later Britain and France declared war on Germany, at the time the U.S. was neutral. Through 1941, germany controlled most of Europe and was a very big threat.

Fermi was worried that the ruler of Italy would follow the laws that Hitler was putting in place. But Fermi ignored his worries and focused on his studies. Fermi was studying atoms. Atoms are made up electrons, neutrons and protons. The center of the atoms is a nucleus. In 1934 Fermi was doing experiments by shooting neutrons into the nuclei of various atoms. One atom that caught his eye was the uranium atom.(Gonzales page 11). When he shot neutrons into the atom the atom would change, he didn’t know how it was changing though. What he didn’t realize was when he shot the neutrons into the atom,that the atom was really splitting into two. He recorded his experiment in his notes and showed it to other scientists to see if they could find out what was happening.(Gonzales pg 13) One of the scientist was Lise Meitner, she was a physicist who worked with German scientists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman. (Gonzales pg

In 1939, during World War 2, German physicists learned how to split an Uranium atom. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi knew the dangers of this, and knew they had to tell President Franklin Roosevelt, and warn him of this. Few of the government officials told people of their uneasiness. Because the president still was not aware of this, Albert Einstein decided to write to him. Einstein’s letter urged the development of an atomic research program. Roosevelt didn’t see the necessity for such a project, but decided that he would follow through with the plan, slowly. The project started in late 1941 and was called the Manhattan Project (The Manhattan Project, pars 1-3).

During the events of WWII, the world’s scientific community learned that German physicists had unlocked the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. The world quickly came to fear the idea of Nazi scientists finding a way to harness that energy and create a weapon of mass destruction the likes of which had never been seen before.

Shortly after, the German Army started investigating if the fission process would have any benefits for the military. A chain reaction was calculated to be possible to generate large amounts of energy or vastly powerful explosives. The Germans found an alternative to Uranium 235, an extremely rare Uranium isotope, plutonium, from publications from the US, France, Denmark, and Britain (Walker, 2005). Eventually allied scientists were told to refrain from publishing their works on nuclear fission to prevent the enemies from gaining off their discoveries. The Germans used a similar method to obtain uranium 235 that the Americans used, they used centrifuges that could separate the heavier more abundant Uranium 238 from Uranium 235. This method needed a way to slow down the neutrons, heavy water was their solution. The Nazi’s had found a good source of heavy water for a good price, but it was located in Norway. The heavy water production was halted by allied bombers and a Norwegian resistance movement (Walker, 2005). The Germans had promising start to their atomic exploration, but there was not the same kind of fearful push to accomplish the development of an atomic bomb like there was in America. Germany had a lot of success in the early forties there they did not see an essential need to developing an atomic bomb. By the time Germany felt the added resistance that the US

which developed the first atomic bombs during World War II. After Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch at the University of Birmingham calculated that a small sphere of pure uranium-235 could explode with the power of thousands of tons of dynamite, their memorandum led to Britain's own atomic bomb project. This project shared research with the US, but was eventually subsumed by the Manhattan Project under the 1943 Quebec Agreement. A British mission led by the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant assisted in the development of electromagnetic separation processes for enriching uranium; Wallace Akers led a similar mission assisting with gaseous diffusion. James Chadwick (pictured) was the head of a British team of distinguished scientists working on

It was first developed in the 1940s, and during the Second World War to 1945 research initially focussed on producing bombs which released great energy from the atoms of particular isotopes of either uranium or plutonium.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann were experimenting with the idea to bombard the nucleus with neutrons to add more atomic mass to the atom. Their original hypothesis stated that the experiment would create Uranium. The Nazi regime began spreading their reign over Germany in the mid-1930s when Hitler was elected to office. While the Nazis gained more power Jews lost more freedom, so for Lise Meitner it became an unsafe environment to continue her research. Although Otto Hahn fought hard for Meitner’s job he was overruled by their boss. The German government restricted her from leaving, so in 1938 she was smuggled into Sweden for her own safety. Hahn and Strassmann kept her updated on their findings, especially the one in particular result that puzzled them. While attacking the nucleus with neutrons the atomic number actually decreased and created barium. With the help of her nephew Otto