The Atomic Bomb And Other Government Experiments Essay, Research Paper
The atomic Bomb code named The Manhattan Project was
the first atomic Bomb created by the United States. The United
States supervised the development of the atomic bomb, under
the code name Manhattan Project, during World War II. The
first sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved in
December 1942 at the University of Chicago under the direction
of Arthur Holly Compton. Key members of the research team
were Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Shortly after
the first bomb test was completed, atomic bombs were dropped
on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki
(Aug. 9, 1945).
The atomic bomb, which was developed secretly in the
United States during World War II, differed from all earlier
types of bombs. It contained radioactive substances that
underwent very rapid changes under certain conditions,
releasing immense quantities of light and heat.
For an atom bomb to explode, its radioactive ingredients,
an isotope of uranium called U-235 must be present in a large
quantity. The name of this quantity is called a critical mass.
The exact details of the bomb’s construction remain secret, but
it probably contains two different quantities of radioactive
material that are brought together mechanically to form a
critical mass and then they will explode it.
An atomic bomb works by means of fission, a process in
which unstable atoms split and eventually form stable, smaller
atoms. The other main type of nuclear bomb is the hydrogen
bomb, works by fusion, with small atoms combining into larger
ones. A hydrogen bomb, which is far more powerful than an
atom bomb, uses isotopes of hydrogen. The final reactions do
not involve a critical mass, and so the bomb size and energy
yields are unlimited.
When Hiroshima was hit by the atomic bomb it all that
could be seen was a noisless Flash. Hiroshima was a port city at
southwest end of Honshu Island founded in the 16th century as a
castle town, it later became a military center it was also the
first city to be hit by an atomic bomb, on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb
was dropped by the United States Army/Air Force. It killed
between 70,000 and 80,000 people and left many to die of
radiation poisoning. The city underwent reconstruction
beginning in 1950. The site of the Peace Memorial Park and
other monuments to victims of atomic bomb.
Another Goverenment Experiment called the
Philadelphia Experiment. This experiment was when the
government tried to make a ship totally invisibile. There has
been many people who say they have witnessed this amazing
experiment. It was a very high classified top secret experiment.
The government even tried the experiment with people on board
the ship. One of the survivors came forward and said that he
had been on the ship. He said there was bad side effects. The ship
was in a harbor one minute but totally disappeared the next.
The people who witnessed this all told the same story. After
about 5 minutes of being totally invisible the ship reappeared
back in the same harbor. The people who witnessed this stood in
amazement at the ship that had totally vanished into thin air.
There is little evidence of this occurance. It has been said that
the government had help from Albert Einstein. People who had
worked on this top secret project said that Einstein created in a
formula for this having to do with electricity.
I was on the internet searching around for anything that I
could find. I found a website that said when the ship disappeared
it did something else also. It was said that the ship disappeared
and was transported to a different harbor and reappeared
somewhere else. The site said that the government had
actually teleported a huge battleship. Some of the evidence is
kind of vague on what really happened. But there has been many
cases where people have claimed that they have witnessed this
eperiment. And there has been a couple that have claimed they
had actually were on the ship when it disappeared.
Another experiment that happened around World War II
didn’t involve the United States Goverment, but involved
Hitler and the Nazi’s. Back when hitler was in power he tried to
create the “Master Race” by changing the genetic code of a
human being. He tried to make a person who was the ultimate
race. And that race of people would hate every other race
except people who were of the master race. Hitler did some
pretty strange stuff. Once he tried to inject blue dye into
people’s eyes so that there eyes would be totally blue. He took
pregnant women and tried to change stuff about the baby’s
race.
Another experiment that Hitler was working on was a
type of new weapon. This weapon was huge and could fire
bullets super fast. It was hidden in a cave and aimed towards
Londen. The United States Government said if Hitler was able
to complete this weapon it would have changed the whole
course of the war. But the U.S. spotted it on radar and bombed
the cave and destroyed it. The U.S. didn’t even know what they
destroyed until later on after the war. They discovered
Hitler’s plans for this ultimate weapon. If Hitler would have
completed this project he could have totally wiped out London
and just about any city in Europe that he wanted to. This shows
how psychotic Hitler was. He did a lot of different strange
experiments on trying tom make the “Master Race” and other
stuff.
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