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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

2. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?

3. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?

4. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?

5. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the various facilities involved with the Manhattan Project. Where are they located? Who operates them? What is their function? Are they all built at once?

Essay Topic 2

The American atomic bomb building project gets bogged down in bureaucracy. How does the program get jump started? Who are the major people involved? What ware the historical events involved? Is there support in the United States for the program?

Essay Topic 3

The discovery of the neutron is considered the beginning of nuclear physics. Why? What role does this discovery have in the making of the atomic bomb? Is the bomb built without this discovery?

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