Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This and other scientific missions to Japan provided valuable data on the effects of the atomic bomb, and led to the creation of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. [324] In anticipation of the bombings, Groves had commissioned physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth to prepare a sanitized technical history of the project for public consumption. The idea ...
With the return of Charles de Gaulle to the presidency of France in the midst of the May 1958 crisis, the final decisions to build an atomic bomb were taken, and a successful test took place in 1960 with Israeli scientists as observers at the tests and unlimited access to the scientific data. [20]
Louis Alexander Slotin (/ ˈ s l oʊ t ɪ n / SLOHT-in; [1] 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's ...
At least two African American scientists, Jasper Brown Jeffries and Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr., were among the tiny group of people aware by July 1945 of the proposal to bomb Japan. Both of them signed the Szilárd petition in an attempt to prevent such use. [30] Others were unaware of what their work was contributing to.
This involved writing to Frederick Lindemann, the UK's prime scientific adviser during WW1. However, this failed to dig up evidence as Lindemann reported that actually Szilárd's "security was good to the point of brusqueness". [6] The first atomic bomb, known as Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
From the back of book The Neutron Story by Donald J. Hugues. Donald James Hughes (April 2, 1915 – April 12, 1960) was an American nuclear physicist, chiefly notable as one of the signers off the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
Second Lieutenant Jeppson was the Electronics Officer for a combat crew of the B-29 aircraft of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group, Twentieth Air Force, which flew from a base in the Marianas Islands to drop on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare.
A front page copy of The New York Times city edition dated August 7, 1945, featuring the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.. On May 5, 1940, Laurence published a front-page exclusive in the New York Times on successful attempts in isolating uranium-235 which were reported in Physical Review, and outlined many (somewhat hyperbolic) claims about the possible future of nuclear power. [7]