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Hace 4 días · The Manhattan Project. 1943-1945. Hidden in remote cities and factories across the United States, scientists and ordinary citizens work in secrecy to produce the hardware and fissionable material to build an atomic bomb. The Calutron Girls separated uranium at Y-12 in Oak Ridge National Laboratory without knowing what they were working on.
Hace 4 días · This method enabled Manhattan Project scientists to collect uranium-235, a key element of the atomic bomb. Following World War II Columbia, built another nuclear testing facility in Prentis...
Hace 2 días · En el Proyecto Manhattan se utilizaron, sobre todo, los dos primeros. El analizador diferencial se destinó durante la guerra sobre todo a la elaboración de tablas de artillería. A principios de 1943, Stanley P. Frankel y Edred Nelson llegarían a Los Alamos para encargarse de organizar todo el trabajo de matemáticas teórico.
Hace 4 días · J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science.
Hace 2 días · Once the public learned of the Manhattan Project after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer—suddenly a household name as the "father of the atomic bomb"—became a national spokesman for science, emblematic of a new type of technocratic power; he appeared on the covers of Life and Time.
Hace 4 días · NEW YORK — Every summer as a kid, Kevin Patterson, 29, hiked up the Lukachukai-Ch’ooshgai Mountains, following the hooves of the sheep and goats to his family’s camp. Up the steep sandstone slope, the young shepherd would stop to rest at the local spring, a paradise in the summer heat. This spring is one of […] The post From sheep camp to the city to study uranium’s damage to Navajo ...
Hace 4 días · Atomic bomb, weapon with great explosive power that results from splitting the nuclei of a heavy metal such as plutonium or uranium.
