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The Disappearing Spoon Chapter 6 Summary

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I read and broke down chapter 6 in The Disappearing Spoon,” Completing the Table…with a Bang.” In this chapter the main argument is how the United States’ nuclear science changed the entire world. This chapter was very intriguing for me not knowing the science and the atom structure of creating nuclear weapons that have won us a war, but will forever live in fear of it happening again. When the earth was created, and a supernova swallowed up planets creating a process distributing natural elements across the Earths’ soil. Scientist were just scratching the surface of the basic periodic table, but just before WWI a young scientist by the name of Henry Mosely grew enthusiastic about his element work. While others thought it was a waste of time he found “As we know today, when a beam of electrons strike an atom, the beam punches out the atom’s own electrons, leaving a hole, Electrons are attached to an atom’s nucleus because electrons and protons have opposite charges, and tearing electrons away from the nucleus is a violent deed” (Kean123). Mosely began to fine tune and hunt for the missing elements, creating the atomic number, determining …show more content…

The bomb would be created out of both plutonium and uranium. Scientist would take the daunting task to figure out the perfect reaction. With the help of “Computers” (women working on calculations) they were able to have a successful test in New Mexico in 1945. With the swift work on Nagasaki and a few days later over Hiroshima. Stanislaw Ulam, a polish refugee, took a new approach to bomb building. Ulam used the same approach as scientists but came up with a problem that would universalize and apply to other situations with multitudes of random variables. The Monte Carlo simulators drove the early development of computers, and forcing them to move faster and faster, this method pushed through the next generation of nuclear

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In 1938 two German scientists discovered how to split a uranium atom, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The U.S. used an international team of scientists, many of whom were Germans who had left their country because of the Nazis, to turn this discovery into a bomb. This was known as the Manhattan Project. They created three bombs and the first was tested successfully on July 16, 1945 in the New Mexico desert.

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The top secret Manhattan Project developed the first atomic/nuclear weapon and helped bring the war with Japan to and end. A research and development aimed at creating a new type of weapon was the goal of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project. During WWII, these scientists concurrently developed two types of atomic bombs (Kelly). Uranium was used as a part of the atomic bomb’s

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The father of the bomb was a Hungarian physicist who came up with the idea of an atomic chain reaction while sitting

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“The Manhattan Project moved from theory to practice in 1943. The physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the young scientists at Los Alamos in designing a nuclear-fission bomb” (Goldfield 789). “On July 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico now called Ground Zero” (Atomic Bomb Museum). After the major explosion physicists noticed how powerful the bomb was that it could destroy worlds.

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More copious funds were given to the top secret Manhattan Project, nearly $2 billion was spent developing and building the weapons. [3] In 1943 a lab run by Robert Oppenheimer was built in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Here they would build the weapon in the form of a bomb, they had to devise ways to deploy and detonate it. By 1945 they created and tested the first ever atomic bomb. The plutonium bomb, named “The Gadget,” would be tested at a test site in New Mexico dubbed Trinity.

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In 1939, the scientific community, specifically German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom (The Manhattan Project” 2015). America realized that Adolf Hitler’s Germany obtained a massive amount of scientific talent. With their access had necessary raw materials and knowledge of the splitting of the uranium atom, they had the industrial capacity to produce an atomic bomb(“Manhattan Project”2014). The atomic bomb would eventually become the turning point of weaponry during World War II. On October 11, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein about the splitting of the uranium atom which could be beneficial in developing weapons for America during World War II.

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The bomb was made with precision and had many scientist on the team to make sure everything went as planned. At the center of Fat Man, a atom bomb named after Winston Churchill, was just the slightest source of neutrons that were surrounded by layers of reflectors for those neutrons (Novick 11). There were two bombs that were made and named, they were Little Boy and Fat Man. Little Boy and Fat Man, which are models, of the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki are on display as the first weapons (Novick

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ulius Robert Oppenheimer was the team leader in the Manhattan project, but many people contributed to the creation of the atom bomb. There is a very large list of people who help create the bomb in the project it took over 130,000 people to create and build the bomb. The main assembly was in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The Atomic bomb was tested at the trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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Many of you may have heard about the use of the atomic bomb during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War 2, but did you ever know about how these mass weapons of destruction are made? Today I am here to tell you about how this bomb is made. First of all you need to know what elements/isotopes are used in the bomb. The two isotopes that are used are Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239. You may ask why these are used.

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That wasn’t the biggest problem, the problem was trying to get the plutonium atoms to split like uranium atoms. After months of consideration Oppenheimer finally found the answer, implosion. With this discovery Oppenheimer wasted no time constructing the bomb. Then on July 16, 1945, the scientists of Los Alamos gathered around the Trinity test site to watch the detonation of the bomb, it was a success. The bomb worked just as planned, causing a massive mushroom cloud and disintegrating the steel tower it was set on.

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The design for the uranium bomb was simply to use a gun assembly method. This meant that a piece of critical mass uranium was shot at a a cylinder to create a fission chain reaction. This was done to several pieces of uranium. The assembly its self was divided into two parts the target and the projectile. Oddly enough the projectile contained the uranium.

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So how is it made? More than one hundred thousand scientist would take on the task of figuring that out, and it would not be easy at all. To build something like this is highly dangerous, on small error and everyone in the lab would be incinerated into bits and pieces. The biggest part of a working bomb, is to have fission, which is why the scientist used uranium-235, and plutonium-239. Both of these elements go through fission at very fast paces.

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There were two bombs, there names were Little boy and fat man. Little boy destroyed Hiroshima and fat man destroyed Nagashima the atomic bomb was made by splitting atoms, causing a chemical reaction making an enormous explosion. The idea of an atomic bomb was presented by Albert Einstein in the 1940’s then was later produced in the Manhattan project.

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By the end of 1943, significant discoveries were found and helped nuclear bomb projects in a few countries. The United States and the Soviet Union put much effort behind this idea, along with smaller programs in Nazi Germany and Britain. The second half of The First War of Physics spans from 1943 to 1949, with a short epilogue into the present day. In the earlier stages of the American project, it was already known that a purified form of uranium, with large amounts of the isotope U-235, would be needed for an atomic bomb.

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On December 2, 1942, Leo Szilard would accurately predict the implications of the event he had just witnessed: “A black day in the history of mankind”. Szilard was attending a demonstration at the University of Chicago, where he looked on as Italian physicist Enrico Fermi conducted an experiment that would lead to the development of the atomic bomb. In a repurposed squash court under the recently abandoned Maroons football field, Fermi would produce the first controlled chain reaction in uranium. This event was a pivotal moment in the multi-national effort to construct and utilize the power of atomic weaponry, and would eventually lead to the decimation of two major cities and the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people. While Fermi’s experiment

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