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The Manhattan Project - Online Term Paper

The Manhattan Project


was the code name for the US effort during World War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer
District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United States during World War II, started by
refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized
after nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938, and many
US scientists were scared that Hitler would attempt to build a fission bomb.


Szilard, a nuclear scientist then living in England, was the first idealize
a realistic modern atomic bomb and came up with the basis ...

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uranium (U-
235) or the common isotope (U-238) could be used. They learned that each
fission releases a few neutrons. A chain reaction, therefore, was
theoretically possible, if not too many neutrons escaped from the mass or
were captured by impurities.

In 1942 General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he
immediately purchased a site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for facilities to
separate the necessary uranium-235 from the much more common uranium-238.
He also appointed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as director
of the weapons laboratory, who ordered the construction of the headquarters
on an isolated mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

After much difficulty an absorbent barrier suitable for separating isotopes
of uranium was developed and installed in the Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion
plant. Finally, in 1945, a uranium-235 of bomb purity was shipped to Los
Alamos, where it was fashioned into a gun-type weapon. In a barrel, one
piece of uranium was fired at ...

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