Tuesday, April 12

 1.     What was the Manhattan Project?

  The manhattan project was making the atomic bomb.

2.     Who was Charles Groves?

  Charles Groves was one of the officers for the atomic bomb.

3.     Who was Robert Oppenheimer?

Robert Oppenheimer was was a physicist in charge of the atomic bomb.

  4.     What is the significance of Los Alomos?

Los Alomos was a school.

  5.     What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more

powerful?

Uranium 235, Plutoneum.

  6.     Who was Klaus Fuchs?

Klaus Fuchs was the spy at Los Alamos.

  7.     What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?

B-29.

  8.     What was Trinity?

The code name for the test of the atomic bomb.

  9.     What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?

This is where the bomb is at and people could hear the bomb going off.

  10.   What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?

 It was the name of the plane that dropped the bomb and Paul Tibbets was the pilot.

  11.   What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the

pilot?

 Boxcar and Major Sweeney was the pilot.

  12.   What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?

 Hiroshima

  13.   What were the nicknames given to each bomb?

Little Boy, Fat Man.

  14.   How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?

It will never be known how many Japanese people died in the blast.

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