We started right into the movie about the atomic bomb drop.
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-the devoloping of the Nuclear Bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?
-He was the head of the Manhattan Project
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-he was a physicist the Groves chose to to run it
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-the place they decided to build the facility to build the bomb
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
-Uranium 235 and Plutonium (Uranuim is more powerful)
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-A spy for soviets
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-The B-29 Super Fortres
8. What was Trinity?
-the code name they gave to the test drop
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-it was the place they test dropped the bomb
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
-It was the Airplane that dropped the first bomb. Tibbits
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
-bockscar flown by Charley Sweeny
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
-there was Little boy, Thin Man, Fat Man
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
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