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Dr. Usama El-Ayaan: Nuclear Fission Insights

The document discusses the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. It describes how the Manhattan Project recruited top physicists and chemists to develop nuclear bombs using either uranium-235 or plutonium-239. By 1945, they had created the Little Boy bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, and the Fat Man bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th and had a plutonium core with the explosive power of 22,000 tons of TNT. The bombs marked the first time nuclear fission devices were used in warfare.

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Dr. Usama El-Ayaan: Nuclear Fission Insights

The document discusses the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. It describes how the Manhattan Project recruited top physicists and chemists to develop nuclear bombs using either uranium-235 or plutonium-239. By 1945, they had created the Little Boy bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, and the Fat Man bomb, which was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th and had a plutonium core with the explosive power of 22,000 tons of TNT. The bombs marked the first time nuclear fission devices were used in warfare.

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Development of the Atomic Bomb

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Development of the Atomic Bomb


Using heavy water (D2O) Heisenberg
managed to slow neutrons even more than
with regular water (H2O)
British commandos sabotaged the heavy
water production facility in Norway and later
sunk a ferry transporting heavy water to
Germany
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Development of the Atomic Bomb


During WW2
WW2 the American set up a secret project called the
Manhattan Project recruiting all the best physicists and nuclear
chemists available
By 1945 they developed two types of nuclear bombs
A U-235 fission bomb
and a PuPu-239 fission bomb

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Little Boy and Fat Man

10 feet

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Model of Fat Man

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Size of Pu core of Nakasaki


bomb Power = 22,
22,000 tons TNT

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Schematics

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masses are forced
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Little Boy - August 6, 1945

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Hiroshima

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Fat Man - Nagasaki Aug 9,


1954

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