Outline On Joan Hinton's Atomic Bomb

5/3/2011 Joan Hinton – Atomic Bomb Topic Outline & Thesis Statement According to Joan Hinton, “As long as there is war, scientists will never be free, are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton wanted to use her gift as a mathematician to help people around the world; instead, she was deceitfully recruited to work on a project that would kill sixty – seventy thousand people and injure one hundred forty thousand more. Sentence Outline Backround * Born October 20th, 1921 * Nuclear Scientists * Her father, Sebastian Hinton, was a lawyer (who also was the inventor of the jungle gym); her mother, Carmelita Hinton, was an educator and the founder of The Putney School, an independent progressive school in Vermont. Her sister, Jean Hinton Rosner (1917–2002), was a civil rights and peace activist. Joan Hinton's great-grandfather was the mathematician George Boole; Ethel Lilian Voynich, a great-aunt, was the author of The Gadfly.
Robert Oppenheimer of the University of California, Berkeley conducted the project * Used over 2 billion dollars to conduct this experiment Atomic Bomb * Destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki * The first atomic bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT. * Nuclear Chain Reaction * The first hydrogen bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 10,000,000 tons of TNT * Only 2 atomic bombs have been used for warfare and that was by the United States on the bombings of 2 Japanese