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The Atomic Bomb
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Einstein-Szlard letter
• Written to FDR saying the nuclear research could produce a bomb.
• Worried that the Germans might develop before us.
• FDR planned to use the bomb against Germany.
Nuclear research being done in Germany at Haigerloch
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The atomic research project was called the Manhattan project.
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Nuclear testing was done at Los Alamos Laboratory (Project Y)
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Robert Oppenheimer President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ranch School Buildings
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To build the bomb...
They needed a team of:• Physicists• Chemists• Metallurgists• Explosive experts• Military personnel
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FDR dies... Truman becomes president
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There were 2 kinds of bombs build• FAT MAN• Implosion fission• Plutonium core• Nagasaki• Aug 9th 1945
• LITTLE BOY• Gun-type fission• Uranium• Hiroshima• Aug 6th 1945
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Fat Man
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Little Boy
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Truman was pressured into using the bomb.
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Bockscar & Enola Gay
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Nagasaki Hiroshima
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Nagasaki Hiroshima
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After the war, Truman signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1946