- ________ was dropped on nagasaki 3 days after "little boy"
- When Britain began to first colonize Australia, what was the land initially used for?
- when the first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945, _______ were killed
- put in charge of the manhattan project; reassigned the development of fissile materials to corporations; asked dr. oppenheimer to head Project Y
- German scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project; shared US secrets with the Soviet Union
- president truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan to ______
- found out about the manhattan project when he became US President; decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan instead of launching a land invasion
- ________and_____ succeeded in creating the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago on december 2, 1942
- president ________ did not see the urgency to begin research on how to split a uranium atom
- after WWII, the united states and soviet union emerged with powerful militaries and the capability to create an atomic bomb
- helped Albert Einstein write a letter to President Roosevelt; helped Fermi create the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
- a bomb that gets its violent power from splitting an atom
- What type of tax is the Social Security tax? The Medicare tax?
- Italian refugee; traveled to Washington, DC, to speak with President Roosevelt about Germany's scientific advancements; built the first nuclear reactor
- German refugee, with the help of Leo Szilard, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt urging the US govt. to begin an atomic research program
- a scientist who studies matter and energy
- in charge of project Y; played a mojor role in developing atomic bombs
- a structure that is used to contain a nuclear reaction
- a toxic radioactive element used for nuclear weapons
- material capable of sustaining a nuclear reaction