H-Bomb, Decision to Build
The 1950 decision to build a hydrogen bomb involved the consideration of U.S. strategic, scientific, and moral concerns in light of the growing threat from the Soviet Union. ...
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Nuclear Weaponry
Overview
Humans have warred against one another since the being of time. Until recently, this tendency to wage war endangered hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people, but neve...
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The New Atomic Industry
The war mobilization effort included the creation of an industry to produce atomic bombs. To develop the atomic bomb many new facilities, including three new cities, were built...
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The Bomb
For many observers, "Living with the Bomb" has become the evocative phrase to describe life in twentieth-century America. The cultural fallout from this technological innovation...
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Atomic Bomb
The invention of the atomic bomb was an historical inevitability. The scientific discovery necessary for construction of such a bomb occurred just as World War II was about to begin. It se...
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Hydrogen Bomb
Even as work on the first atomic bomb was going ahead, some scientists were thinking about an even more powerful weapon, the hydrogen, or fusion bomb. As far back as the 1920s, scientist...
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Atomic Bomb
An atomic bomb is a weapon of mass destruction which uses nuclear fission to produce vast amounts of energy. Its basic principle is assembling a critical mass of a radioactive element with...
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Nuclear Weapons
The first nuclear explosion on earth occured on July 16, 1945, in Alamagordo, New Mexico, as part of a test for the Manhattan project initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...
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Nuclear Weapons
There are two types of nuclear weapons, each of which utilizes a different nuclear reaction: nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. The bomb developed by the Manhattan Project and dropp...
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Atomic Bomb
The mushroom-shaped cloud associated with the above-ground detonation of an atomic bomb is one of the most defining images and represents one of the most challenging moral imperatives to a...
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Early Discoveries
The Discovery of Fission
European Scientists Flee to America
Einstein’s Letter to Roosevelt
Creation of the Manhattan Project
The First Atomic Pile
Manufacturing Fuel for the Bomb...
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It was in no way necessary for the United States to use the atomic bomb on Japan at the end of WWII. There were much better options available. The Russians were willing to help fight Japan, and the ...
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There are different biological effects that occur when human bodies are exposed to radiation from a nuclear blast. When we are exposed to the radiation, the body will absorb some of the energy. There ...
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Does the United States Need Nuclear Weapons? The United States alone has enough missiles to destroy the Earth a few times over. So why do we keep funding the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, when we...
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A-BOMB
The development of the A-bomb was positive for World War II but in ways it was negative to future generations. The A-bomb ended the war with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led t...
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Many people will argue that the United States was justified in the dropping of the atom bomb. These people believe the dropping of the atomic bomb was necessary for Japan's surrender and the end of Wo...
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Technology during World War 2 played a crucial role in determining the outcome of the war .The development of technology used in the war had begun in the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s.Given th...
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H-Bomb, Decision to Build
Nuclear Weaponry
The New Atomic Industry
The Bomb
Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb
Nuclear Weapons
Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb
