Today, in class, we got on the computers and watched Enola Gay again.
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
- The plan and creation of the nuclear bombs.
2. Who was Charles Groves?
- A general that chose the scientist whom should head up the Manhattan Project
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
- He was said scientist. Very Communist. Yikes.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
- This is where the development of the bomb took place. Once they started, their contact with the outside world was cut off, as it was so top-secret.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
- Plutonium and Uranium. Plutonium is more dangerous.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
- He was a German physicist and a spy that provided the USSR with information on the Allied Powers development of the atomic bomb
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
- The B-29 Bomber.
8. What was Trinity?
- The CodeName of the test of the plutonium Bomb
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
- This is where the Trinity site was.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
- Enola Gay was the name of the airplane that dropped the A-bomb on the Japanese mainland to end WW2. It was dropped on Hiroshima. Paul Tibbets was the pilot. The plane was named after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
- Box Car was the name. Fat man was the bomb. Captain Frederick C. Bock.
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
- Nagasaki and Hiroshima of Japan.
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
- Little Boy was given to uranium. Fat man to plutonium?
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
- About 100,000 for the Hiroshima bombing. 60,000 at Nagasaki.
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