Nuclear Weapons

the Background

• Einsteins Letter
• Nazis would use them
• Britain helped, but didn't have resources

Testing the Bomb

• 5:29:21(+or- 2) July, 1945, Trinity, New Mexico
• 18600 tons of TNT
• 200 ton container, .5 miles away

What Happened

• Potsdam Ultimatum
• Little Boy
• Fat Man
• Surrender

Impact

• It saved people
• Nuclear Arsenals
• Big Bombs 

Impact, New Bombs

• Fussion Bombs
• Neutron Bombs
• Cobalt Bombs
• Hydrogen Bomb (Castle Bravo)

Explosive Power of Bombs in tons of TNT

Works Cited

• The Diagram Group. Weapons, an 
•          International Encyclopedia from
•          5000BC to 2000AD. New York City
•          St. Martins Press, 1990

Works cited (cont.)

• Gosling, F.G. "The Manhattan Project:
•          Making the Atomic Bomb" OST (1999) 1 -76
• Stimson, Henry Lewis "The Decision to use 
•           the Atomic Bomb" Colombia (1947) 1-16

Works Cited(cont.)

• chemwiki.ucdavis.edu UCDavis. 3/12/2014
• http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Physical_Chemistry/Nuclear_Chemistry/Case_Studi...
•           Case_Study%3A_Nuclear_Weapons/Nuclear_Weapons
• www2.gwu.edu National Security Archive 3/13/2014 http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/