Transcript Atomic Bomb - Cody Deklerk

Atomic Bomb
Cody Deklerk
Jake Russell
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What's in an Atomic Bomb
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An atomic bomb is consisted of uranium 235 or plutonium 239
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The reason why it blows up is because of fission. One of the neutrons of
the uranium or plutonium strikes the nucleus thus causing it to split into
two fragments. After splitting the nucleus, it has half the protons and
neutrons. But during the process of the nucleus splitting a lot of thermal
energy builds up and neutrons are released. This process keeps going
and more fission is happening thus causing a chain reaction in which all
fission is consumed and it triggers the explosion.
Plutonium
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Facts And History
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The manhattan project: it was a project to build the atomic bomb. It
wasn't just the Untied States that wanted to build the atomic bomb, it
was also foreign countries. From all these countries including America,
they did research on how to construct a atomic bomb and how to use it
and how to design it. Albert Einstein was associated with designing the
bomb but never participated fully with the whole project.
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The first atomic bomb was built after WWII and was first used at the
trinity bomb site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. After the bomb was
built it was used in the war between Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It demonstrated how destructive it could be. But shortly after this the
arms race started between the U.S. And the Soviet Union.
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The atomic bomb was mainly used for war. It was used to kill many
people and show how powerful the bomb was and the damage it caused
and it could do to other countries.
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Facts and History Cont.
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Operation Crossroads was performed at the bikini atoll by the united
states government in mid 1946. The operation consisted of two
explosions. One on the actual island of bikini and the other planted off
the coast, under about 90 feet of water. Both explosion proved
catastrophic. The bikini islands can’t be inhabited for at least 20,000
years.
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The atomic bomb has a detonation power of over 1.2 million tons of
TNT.
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Arms race’s for the atomic bomb and other nuclear weapons go back as
far as World War Two. Two of the biggest proliferators of nuclear
weapons are the U.S and Russia.
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The U.S. and Russia have almost had nuclear catastrophe twice. One in4
the cold war. And the second time in the cuban missile crisis.
Uses For The Atomic Bomb
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The Atomic bomb is now days used purely as a deterrence method.
Deterrence means stopping foreigners from attacking. Because of the
sheer power of the atomic bomb, people don’t usually want to have a
war with someone who has a vast base of Nukes. This is all because of
the MAD theory, or mutually assured destruction. If the united states
were to attack the soviet union, or vis versa, they would both be
destroyed because of their arsenal of nuclear tech.
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The Atomic Bomb, as aforementioned is used for experiments. Such as
the experiments on bikini atoll.
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It was also used on Hiroshima as an act of war. Killing over 200,000
people, mostly citizens.
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Atomic Bomb Exploding
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11e8XyUBqRQ
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Fun FACTS
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Another term for the atomic bomb is the A-Bomb
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At the peak of nuclear weapons research, 160,000 people researched
and produced the bomb. Nobody can be credited as the single inventor
of the bomb.
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2/3 of Hiroshima was destroyed after the U.S. dropped the A-Bomb on it.
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The united states alone has spend nearly 35 billion dollars on research
and nuclear stockpiles.
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References
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/41620/atomic-bomb
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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshimaand-nagasaki
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon
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http://vector.me/search/atomic-bomb-cartoon
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Nitroglycerin2D-skeletal.png
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http://img1.guidechem.com/structure/image/139408-97-2.gif
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www.google.com
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