Nuclear Weapons And Its Impact On The World - 1702 Words

Throughout history many progressions in science and technology have set us ahead of other nations both scientifically and militarily. The use of new technology to set us ahead of other nations was imminent. With the creation of planes and tanks in the First World War the advancement of new technology and nation destroying weapons were not far off. With the threat of the Germans creating Wonder Weapons which could win them the war and the world we enlisted the help of defected German scientists and Americas greatest minds scientifically and military alike. With the fear of losing hundreds of thousands of troops in japan we used the first atomic bombs setting a new world standard for warfare and changing the way our nation was viewed. The†¦show more content†¦Albert Einstein who escaped Nazi Germany and Enrico Fermi who escaped fascist Italy these two who defected to the United States informed the president of the power the Axis nations were working on. With Einstein pushing P resident Roosevelt to research this power from splitting uranium atoms and the President seeing no use for this he slowly started agreeing. In 1942 the Manhattan Project group is created with the idea to make the world’s first Atomic Bomb (Sherrow page 6; â€Å"The Manhattan Project† Web). The Project was held at first out of only a few colleges, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. The same year that the project was established the first controlled nuclear reaction was achieved by Fermi and the S-1 group at the University of Chicago. With this success more funds were placed into the project and development of the bomb. Nuclear facilities were built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Hanford, Washington. The main station and bomb building plant was placed in Los Alamos, Texas with Robert Oppenheimer as the head. The main Power source for the bomb is Uranium-235 and that that its isotope would work as a fuel source for a nuclear device. The process though of separating Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 would prove very difficult but necessary to gain access to the fuel source (Sherrow page 7; â€Å"The Manhattan