Atomic Bomb Video
Final video showing how atomic bombs work for CD Studio
Below is the story of the Atomic bomb. The paragraph before for and after explain the context and history of the atomic bomb. The video shows in detail how nuclear fission works.
Nuclear weapon technology was first developed during World War II. It began with the discovery of nuclear fission, the process which made the first atomic bomb possible. Fission was discovered 1938 by German nuclear physicists. When the world’s scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom. Panic spread over the possibility German scientists would develop and use the bomb first. Some scientists knew this was possible because they were refugees from Germany, a large number of them, and they had studied under the Germans before the war broke out. They warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt who authorized the Manhattan Project in 1942, bringing together various scientists and military officials working on nuclear research.
This mass is incased by a mirror which reflects the neutrons increasing the intensity of each reaction. The most challenging part of the process is delaying the explosion until it is time to detonate. This is done by dividing the mass into halves which are subcritical. The subcritical mass are placed into a tube inside the bomb. One mass was fixed on the far end of the tube while the other mass was movable and on the other end. Also on this end was a traditional explosive. When the bomb is detonated the explosive hits the moving mass into the fixed mass. The masses merge making them super critical, causing the explosion. The United states dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 from a B-29 bomber plane called the Enola Gay. This bomb was called “little boy”. This explosion had about 13 kilotons of force. It leveled 5 square miles of the city and killed 80,000 people instantly. Tens of thousands would later die. The world had never seen destruction. When the Japanese did not surrender, a second bomb “Fat man” was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 40,000 people on impact. When Japanese Emperor Hirohito witnessed the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb,” He announced his country’s surrender on August 15, ending World War II. “The Manhattan Project was built on fear: fear that the enemy had the bomb, or would have it before we could develop it.” The men who make the bomb in 1945 hoped that it would blackmail humankind into keeping the peace.
