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atomic bomb
Title: atomic bomb
Category: History
Details: Words: 2290 | Pages: 9.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
atomic bomb
“The Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, was a spectacular success. A 6 kilogram sphere of plutonium, compresses to supercriticality by explosive lenses, exploded over the New Mexico desert with a force equal to approximately 20,000 tons of TNT”(U.S. National Archives). This statement from the TS Manhattan Project Files was describing a day in history which brought about hope for the ending of a war, as well as destructive fate for thousands of people. Thus the topic
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the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman. New York:
Harper and Row, 1980. Pgs. 55-56.
http://darter.ocps.k12.fl.us/classroom/who/darter1.atomic.htm.
http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/ A-bomb/history/Damages.html.
Report on Test II at Trinity, 16 July 1945. To: Major Gen. Groves, From: Colonel
Stafford L. Warren - Chief of Medical Section Manhattan District.
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 77, Records of the Office of the Chief of
Engineers, Manha
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