Transcript Group 5

Devastation Room
Decision
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Museum Entrance
Aftermath Room
Production of
atom bomb
Scientists Room
Welcome to the Museum of
The Manhattan Project
Curator’s
Offices
Samuel J. Kreins
Curator’s
Office
I am a leader and enjoy to control the group
as well as being part of one. Welcome to the
museum of the Manhattan project that we
have put together for you. We hope that you
enjoy.
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Scientists Room
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Devastation Room
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Production of atom bomb
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Aftermath of nuclear warfare
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Some Manhattan Project Scientists
Some Manhattan Project Scientists: from left to
right: Bohr, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Fermi.
These are some of the scientists involved in
the making of the Atomic Bomb. They worked
at the Los Alamos center in New Mexico.
http://mrmouatmwh2011.wikispaces.c
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roject)
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Robert Oppenheimer
This is Robert Oppenheimer. He was one
of the main scientists involved in the
researching and building of the atomic
bomb.
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Ernest Wilkins
Ernest Wilkins, black scientist in the
Manhattan Project. He had an
important role in the isolating of the
uranium while building the bomb.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2015/0
5/ernest-wilkins-negro-genius.html
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Lilli Hornig
There were also many women scientists that
were in the Manhattan Project. This is Lilli
Hornig, She was a scientist at Los Almos.
http://www.atomicheritage.org/article/
women-scientists-manhattan-project
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People Died
More than 100 million soldiers and civilians are
estimated to have died during the international
and civil wars of the twentieth century. although
this is almost an unimaginable number, there is
cause for some hope, even as there is also
cause for despair.
The hope arises from historical evidence that
the number of international wars, civil wars,
and other types of armed conflict has in fact
declined over the centuries, with the number in
the past half-century much smaller than in
centuries past Reflecting this decline, a smaller
percentage of the world’s population died in
armed conflict during the past century than in
earlier eras
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Explosions
In 1946, the Manhattan Engineer
District published a study that
concluded that 66,000 people were
killed at Hiroshima out of a
population of 255,000. Of that
number, 45,000 died on the first
day and 19,000 during the next
four months. In addition, "several
hundred" survivors were expected
to die from radiation-induced
cancers and leukemia over the
next 30 years.
http://www.warbirdforum.c
om/hirodead.htm
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Devestation
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki
explosions yielded some 200
different kinds of radioactive
isotopes, that is, nuclear fission
particles of uranium and plutonium
that escaped fission. Following the
explosions, these and other
materials irradiated by neutrons
from the bomb, were carried high
into the atmosphere.
http://atomicbombmuseum.org/3_radioacti
vity.shtml
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Effects of the bomb
•The United States becomes the first
and only nation to use atomic
weaponry during wartime when it
drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese
city of Hiroshima. Though the
dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan
marked the end of World War II, many
historians argue that it also ignited the
Cold War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bombdropped-on-hiroshima
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Expolsions
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. At the time, uranium-235 was
very hard to extract.
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/
atomic_bomb.htm
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Enriched Uranium
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. At the time, uranium235 was very hard to extract.
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/
atomic_bomb.htm
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Manufactuing Plants
A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_
bomb.htm
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Construction
Harold Urey and his colleagues at Columbia
University devised an extraction system that
worked on the principle of gaseous diffusion,
and Ernest Lawrence (inventor of the
Cyclotron) at the University of California in
Berkeley implemented a process involving
magnetic separation of the two isotopes.
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_
bomb.htm
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Japans nuclear power
Today, Japan's nuclear energy infrastructure
makes it eminently capable of constructing
nuclear weapons at will. The de-militarization of
Japan and the protection of the United States'
nuclear umbrella have led to a strong policy of
non-weaponization of nuclear technology, but
in the face of nuclear weapons testing by North
Korea, some politicians and former military
officials in Japan are calling for a reversal of
this policy.
http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-inamerica.htm
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Free of Possibility?
There is no more Cold War, so is there a threat
of nuclear war in America or is the country free
from this possibility? It is true that the Cold War
ended in the late 1980's under the Reagan
Administration. However, the missile age didn't
fully end at that time. Russia and the U.S. both
have stockpiles of nuclear weapons which
have been slowly reduced over the past 20
years.
http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-inamerica.htm
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Is there threat of nuclear war?
The threat of nuclear war in America is still a
reality. It is not brought to light very often, but
the possibility does still remain. North Korea
has ballistic nuclear warhead equipped
missiles that can reach the West Coast of
America. For years, Russia has had ballistic
missiles that can reach all areas within the U.S.
Iran is aggressively working on a nuclear
program which seems to involve the creation of
nuclear weapons.
http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-inamerica.htm
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Define Nuclear Warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or
thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or
political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is
used to inflict damage on the enemy.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=strict
&q=define+nuclear+warfare
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Pearl Harbor Attack
This attack influenced our decision to drop the
bomb on japan.
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Harry Truman
Harry Truman was in charge when we dropped
the bomb.
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Newspaper Article
This was in the newspaper about
the atom bomb.
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Atomic Bomb Article
This is an article on the decision to
drop the Atomic bomb.
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Atomic Bomb
This is the Atomic Bomb we dropped on Japan.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the building and
dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
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Sign by the Labs
They didn’t want the word to get out that they
were building an Atomic bomb.
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Blast Radius
This it the blast radius of the Atomic Bomb.
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