Enrico Fermi: The Father Of The Atomic Bomb

World War II was the second major war between the worlds’ superpowers at the time. Physics before and during the war were evolving, new discoveries were being made each day. In wartime, Scientists were used for the creation of weapons. With the discovery of fission, a new type of weapon could possibly be created. America’s secret mission to use this new discovery of fission was known as The Manhattan Project. The goal of the Manhattan Project was to develop the first atomic bomb to use in World War II. Enrico Fermi was known as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”. He was one of the most influential people in the creation of the bomb. He emigrated from fascist France due to the persecution of Jews. Although he was not Jewish himself, his wife

Albert Einstein was strongly against the use of the atomic bomb. Einstein had written in his journal “I have condemned the use of the Atomic bomb against Japan”. Einstein, five months before his death said “I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them." Admiral Leahy, President Roosevelt's’ chief of staff was quoted as to saying “It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and that wars cannot be won by destroying women and

One was the city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb, code named little boy, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, the bomb killed eighty thousand people. Tens of thousands more would die off due to radiation exposure . The bomb also demolished sixty thousand of the ninety thousand buildings in Hiroshima. Even after all of that destruction the Japanese still did not surrender. The next target was the Japanese city of Kokura. The target was soon abandoned when there was a large smoke cloud over the city. The pilot switched to the secondary target, the city of Nagasaki. The bomb was dropped and exploded eighteen hundred feet in the air to maximize the effect. The bomb took the lives of forty two thousand and injured forty thousand more. Nearly forty percent of all buildings in Nagasaki were destroyed. Japan soon surrendered, due to the creation of the Manhattan Project, the atomic