If you watch the news you’ve probably heard all of the tension between us and North Korea with the nuclear arms. Well I have some knowledge to share with you. The first H bomb test and its predecessors, The components of the first H bomb and how it explodes. The science behind the H bomb is long and confusing, but I've simplified it enough to the point to make it understandable and interesting I hope. The components, the main parts of the H-bomb are the Spark Plug the explosive temper and the fossil fuel for the secondary device. The primary consists of much more fossil fuel. Then it’s encased in a heavy metal and aluminum shell. Think of it this way a car has two main parts the engine and then the transmission. It can’t drive without each other like the secondary and primary device in the H bomb. The fossil fuel is made of Deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of Hydrogen which is where all of the weight in the bomb comes from. How it explodes first the explosion tamper …show more content…
The first H bomb Ivy mike was dropped there by airplane the bomb was so heavy that the plane (b29 heavy bomber) couldn’t hardly stay in the air they have heavier bombers, but they need to worry about getting out of the blast zone so they needed speed to that’s why they used it. They dropped the bomb the 30 kiloton bomb raced toward the earth, then Bam it exploded, setting of a 30 kiloton equivalent of TNT. It wiped out an Island completely a 2 acre island gone, vanished then after it went through the island, it left a crater in the ocean floor that’s 194 feet deep and 6,240 wide granted the ocean floor was only 15 feet down but still 194 feet deep that's insane. They tested 12 Thermonuclear weapons at the pacific test site, then another 11 at the Nevada test site. So here's an example The first H bomb blast was 10 times bigger than Fatman the bomb dropped on
A young scientist who was very smart and intelligent was the creator of a bomb that killed millions. The bomb was the most powerful weapon that was ever manufactured. He changed the course of World War II. This man is Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb. The book “Bomb” by Steve Sheinkin, is a book that includes teamwork and how Americans made a deadly bomb that changed the course of the war. The book engages the reader through how spies share secret information with enemies. Because the physicists were specifically told not to share any information, they were not justified in supplying the Soviet Union with the bomb technology.
The creation of the hydrogen bomb, moreover the summoning of an arms race, spawned worldwide desire for nuclear arms, and worldwide fear for those who had them; The effects of such can be seen in the economic and diplomatic benefits exhibited by those with enough stamina and vigilance to endure its costs, and in the extreme measures taken by countries, nominally the United States, to respond to the security threat posed when other countries owned the bomb. Furthermore: For those whose economy could afford it, nominally the U.S., USSR and India, economic and diplomatic benefits followed its creation; For the U.S., following the creation of the bomb by enemies were extreme defense tactics; For all the benefits and costs compelled a worldwide
The first H-bomb was detonated with the force of ten megatons, more that several hundred times the power of the A-bomb.
In the world there is little thing called power. Many countries want to have great power, few get it. Powers gave the Soviet Union and the U.S. the ability to dominate in wars. In the 1950’s during the Cold War these two countries had a race to se who could create the most powerful weapon the world has ever seen, the Hydrogen Bomb. Edward Teller, an atomic physicist, and Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, a mathematician, "who together developed the Teller-Ulam design in 1951" for the Hydrogen Bomb (Teller-Ulam Design). Many people had their thoughts about why or why not the Hydrogen Bomb should have been built. What this essay will talk about is why the Hydrogen Bomb was built.
Atomic Bomb The use of the atomic bombs on Japan was necessary for the revenge of the Americans. These bombs took years to make due to a problematic equation. The impact of the bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people and the radiation is still killing people today. People today still wonder why the bombs were dropped. If these bombs weren’t dropped on the Japanese the history of the world would have been changed forever. The Atomic bomb took 6 years to develop (1939-1945) for scientists to work on a equation to make the U-235 into a bomb. The most complicated process in this was trying to produce enough uranium to sustain a chain reaction. The bombs used on the cities cost about $2 billion to develop, this also making the U.S. wanting to use them against Japan. “Hiroshima was a major military target and we have spent 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history- and won.” (3) The bomb dropped on Hiroshima weighted 4.5 tons and the bomb used on Nagasaki weighted 10 kilotons. On July 16, 1945, the first ever atomic bomb was tested in the Jamez Mountains in Northern New Mexico, code named “Gadget.” The single weapon ultimately dropped on Hiroshima, nicknamed “Little Boy,” produced the amount of approximately twenty- thousand tons of TNT, which is roughly seven times greater than all of the bombs dropped by all the allies on all of Germany in 1942. The first Japanese City bomb was Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. An American B-29 bomber, named Enola Gay, flown by the pilot Paul W. Tibbets, dropped the “Little Boy” uranium atomic bomb. Three days later a second bomb named ”Fat Boy,” made of plutonium was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. After being released, it took approximately one minute for Little Boy to reach the point of explosion, which was about 2,000 feet. The impact of the bombs on the cities and people was massive. Black rain containing large amounts of nuclear fallout fell as much as 30km from the original blast site. A mushroom cloud rose to twenty thousand feet in the air, and sixty percent of the city was destroyed. The shock wave and its reverse effect reached speeds close to those of the speed of sound. The wind generated by the bombs destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1.
In the attack against the Japanese, President of the United States, Harry S Truman used an atomic bomb. At first he was very hesitant and warned the Japanese twice about his upcoming attack, but got no response. Truman knew if he were to use the bomb it would be a very quick attack and he could mark the Japanese off his list of targets.
People who were testing the atomic bombs both tested them on land and underwater,However they knew that they wanted to study the atomic bombs and set them to explode and see how far it could reach depending on what they do with the bombs. As usual they tested the bombs with estimated about 200-300 ships were blown by 2 bombs. By far they knew that the bombs were great to use for war most likely for world war. They use those bombs on the island to test about one bomb can blow 1 city down to pieces.
The USA’s new weapon, the Hydrogen bomb, or H-bomb, was one of the most powerful weapons of the time. In 1950, the H-bomb was tested in the Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands (Cold War History). The reaction was so fierce, the explosion wiped the island off the face of the earth, leaving a crater on the ocean floor. The explosion reached a range of 25 square miles and had a mushroom cloud which dropped radioactive fallout on the surrounding areas (The Cold War Museum). This new weapon scared the Soviet Union into creating their own bombs.
The atomic bomb is a powerful, explosive nuclear weapon. It is fueled by the fission of the nuclei of specific amounts of plutonium or uranium, in a chain reaction. The strength of the explosion created by one of these bombs is equal to the strength of an explosion created by thousands of tons of TNT.
At 11:02 a.m., the second atomic bomb was dropped at Nagasaki (Harder). From a height of 9600 meters, the atomic bomb was dropped and exploded at a height of 503 meters. The power of the atomic bomb was greater than the first atomic bomb. However, the damage was less than Hiroshima because of the geographical features of Nagasaki. 7.
The nuclear bomb was the most devastating weapon ever created by man. It was developed between 1942 and 1945 during the second World War. The project to build the worlds first atomic weapon was called The Manhattan Project. The nuclear bomb was based on the idea of splitting an atom to create energy, this is called fission. Three bombs were created, “Trinity”, “Little Boy”, and “Fat Man”. “Trinity” was dropped on a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, proving the theories, engineering and mathematics of the bomb to be correct. Shortly after that, not more than 2 months, the U.S. performed the first actual nuclear attack in the history of war. The bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on the town of Hiroshima, instantly killing thousands. “Fat Man” was dropped shortly after on the town of Nagasaki. After the bombing almost all scientist involved with the creation of the bomb regretted its construction and spoke out against the abolishment of nuclear weapons.
The world’s conflict over nuclear weapons all began with President Truman’s decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II was coming to a close but Japan would not surrender. So, on August 6, 1945, the bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. It was triggered by a gun mechanism where a small piece of uranium-235 was fired down a barrel into a larger piece. This caused an explosion of 15 kilotons, or 15,000 tons of TNT, killing 90,000 to 166,000 people. Surprisingly, Japan did not surrender, so on August 9, 1945, the bomb Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. It was triggered when shock waves from high explosives set off the plutonium-239 core. It caused an explosion of 20 kilotons, or 20,000 tons of TNT, and killed 60,000 to 80,000 people. This second attack really sent the message to Japan, and they finally surrendered on August 15, 1945. World War II was finally over, but the Cold War began with the reveal of the United States’ nuclear power. It is believed that dropping the bombs saved both Japanese and American lives by ending the w...
Overall, the United States got what they primarily wanted, which was to end the war in a timely fashion. Truman’s team was able to keep him on track to continue to impose a strict goal made by his military officers. Despite the possibility of executing the bomb for the sole desire to intimidate Russia, Truman stuck to his justification. The men in uniform were the ones that convinced him to take immediate action instead of watching the rising threat of Russia The thought of communism as being the world evil began to convince the United States that they were the ones who had the power to stop it. After the bombing, the US began to take on another threat to society.
The hydrogen bomb, a stronger version of nuclear bomb, which uses a fission bomb to ignite thermonuclear fuel, marked a new and extremely important stage in the nuclear arms race. Truman’s super bomb took over two years to complete. On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb on the pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The Soviet Union did not left far behind. Nine months later, on August 12, 1953 it tested an intermediate type of hydrogen bomb.
The planes and bombs were a big part in the bombing. The two bombs names were little boy and fat man, the ships were b-295 and there were also scientific teams there to document the explosion. There were also a series of non nuclear fire bombs bombed on Japan before the big atomic bombs. The fire bombs killed more people than the atomic bombs attacks did.