The Atomic Bomb
Published on Mar 15, 2016
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The Atomic Bomb
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When Enrico Fermi and colleagues studied the results of bombarding uranium with neutrons in 1934, people started to realize that nuclear energy could be used to create a bomb — any fast energy release can be turned into a bomb. It took the Second World War to push scientists into actively pursuing the idea into reality.
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The Germans, under the rule of Hitler made several initial investigations into the field and were on the right path but never seemed to reach the ability to create a bomb. The allies knew about the Germans' efforts, and actively sabotaged and undermined them.
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This also prompted the United States of America, together with Britain and Canada and deliberately without the then Soviet Union ally, to create the Manhattan Project, under the leadership of Robert Oppenheimer, to specifically design and build the first nuclear bomb.
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What ideas or inventions had to be created before they could achieve the making of the bomb?
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The binding energy, which is how much energy is stored in the heavy nuclei such as uranium and plutonium, had to be discovered. The process of creating material capable of reaching critical mass is very difficult and represents a significant engineering challenge.
How dangerous can it be?
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When the bomb is in its stored state it is not dangerous at all for it requires various amounts of work to set it off.
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Once detonated, the explosion can be extremely dangerous. Just the impact can kill over fifty thousand people and people also die from the radiation and burns.
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Before being hit by the bomb
After being hit
Whole cities have been wiped out and destroyed.
Bibliography
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:How_Things_Work/Nuclear_Bomb
www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/netsam/revisionist_history.html
www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/atomic-bomb
www.science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm.com
www.factslides.com/s-Atomic-Bomb
www.2history.com/key_moments/Pacific/Nuclear_bomb_on_Hiroshima
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