Finishing documentary today.
Tomorrow is a review day.
Thurs/Fri test days.
Picking back up with Trinity, and the testing of the atomic bomb. the tower was gone down to the ground, and glass covered the sand in the immediate vacinity, thanks to the heat.
509th Composite, the crew with the B29 planes.
Potsdam Declaration- the japanese must surrender completely or face ultimate destruction. they treat it with contempt, so we americans decide the atomic bomb is our only option.
Colonal Tibbits introduces a navy dude, who informs the 509th that they will be dropping the most destructive weapon ever produced on japan.
August 5th, 1945. Little Boy is loaded onto the Enola Gay.
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
America's developement of the Atomic Bomb during WW2.
2. Who was Charles Groves?
a military officer, put in charge of the Manhattan Project. did not want to be, wanted to be on the front lines. slightly overweight, chocolate lover.
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
a brilliant theoretical physicist. very skinny. communist, but american.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
the sight where the bomb will be developed. very secretive. comfortable, but confined.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
uranium 235 and plutonium.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
a soviet spy in Los Alamos.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
B29. must bigger and faster than the B17. able to carry 10,000 lb atomic bomb.
Enola Gay.
8. What was Trinity?
the code-name for the test bombing of the atomic bomb. barren land near Alamagordo, NM.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
sight where the first atomic bomb was dropped. the test-bombing.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
The plane that carried the atomic bomb. Piloted by Paul Tibbits. Named after his mother.
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
Bockscar - Chuck Sweenie
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
Thin Man; plutonium. Eventually becomes Little Boy when it is shortened from 17 ft to 9 ft and widened.
Fat Man; plutonium condensed into hollow ball in another casing within the bomb.
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
in Hiroshima: at least 70,000 died instantly. another 30,000 died in the coming weeks form radiation and injuries.
In Nagasaki: 60,000
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