Fat Man Research Paper
August 9th,1945 the second atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. In the image noted at the end of the paper, it shows Fat Man just after it has dropped. The Manhattan Project is considered to be an important factor in ending World War 2 II. The photo is a candid depicting the damage that will come. The Manhattan Project started in 1939, with Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist that drafted a letter and then sent it to Franklin D. Roosevelt and it was signed by former teacher Albert Einstein. Lead scientist of the project was Robert J. Oppenheimer, and was one of many that were considered father of the atomic bomb. Many other famous scientists were involved in the Manhattan Project including Aage and Niels Bohr,Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman,Frank Oppenheimer,Pief Panofsky, Edward Teller,Victor
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Out of the twenty five locations, Hanford,Washington, Los Alamos,New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the three most prominent locations for building the atomic bombs. Fat Man was the third atomic bomb dropped in history, it contained 14 pounds of Plutonium and weighed 10,300 pounds. Robert J. Oppenheimer once said, “ I am become death,the destroyer of worlds”. The importance of this image is that the bomb is literal death and represents the damage created. They took the best scientists and placed them together to create a thing that would be killing an unimaginable amount of people. Fat Man had a blast yield of 21kt, which is just some of the TNT out of the 3 megatons of TNT used throughout WW II. Fat Man also was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 Japanese Civilians. Which proved that choices indeed have consequences, and people suffered as a result of it not only figuratively but literally as well. The burns, the radiation effects, and malnutrition; they suffered
Out of the twenty five locations, Hanford,Washington, Los Alamos,New Mexico, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the three most prominent locations for building the atomic bombs. Fat Man was the third atomic bomb dropped in history, it contained 14 pounds of Plutonium and weighed 10,300 pounds. Robert J. Oppenheimer once said, “ I am become death,the destroyer of worlds”. The importance of this image is that the bomb is literal death and represents the damage created. They took the best scientists and placed them together to create a thing that would be killing an unimaginable amount of people. Fat Man had a blast yield of 21kt, which is just some of the TNT out of the 3 megatons of TNT used throughout WW II. Fat Man also was responsible for the deaths of 80,000 Japanese Civilians. Which proved that choices indeed have consequences, and people suffered as a result of it not only figuratively but literally as well. The burns, the radiation effects, and malnutrition; they suffered