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The Pros And Cons Of The Atomic Bomb

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This week on Bomb…, You know what, Forget this. This week, after reading Bomb, we finally saw the dropping of the atomic bomb. two bombs were dropped. the first one, little boy, was dropped on Hiroshima in the august of 1945. This first bomb was a gun-type bomb in which two valves of claim 225 ( a highly unstable version of uranium) were fire at each other. this set a chain reaction that ended up exploding with the force of twenty-two thousand pounds of TNT, or the regular material in the regular bomb. The second bomb, dropped two weeks later, was named the Fat man. The Fat Man was an implosion style bomb. This means that a plutonium core is surrounded by lots of bombs. This pushes the plutonium on itself, causing an extremely strong force. …show more content…

This intrigued me, because the thought of something so small having an impact so large, it’s just so implausible. being the son of a scientist's, I started to snoop around. I unearthed a piece of plutonium from the Harvard University. This is what the Harvard research paper said: “Plutonium-239 is one of the two fissile materials used for the production of nuclear weapons and in some nuclear reactors as a source of energy. The other fissile material is uranium-235. Plutonium-239 is virtually nonexistent in nature. It is made by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Uranium-238 is present in quantity in most reactor fuel; hence, plutonium-239 is continuously made in these reactors. Since plutonium-239 can itself be split by neutrons to release energy, plutonium-239 provides a portion of the energy generation in a nuclear reactor.Plutonium belongs to the class of elements called transuranic elements whose atomic number is higher than 92, the atomic number of uranium. Essentially all transuranic materials in existence are manmade. The atomic number of plutonium is

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