Robert Oppenheimer spoke about the development and use of the atomic bomb. He talked about atomic weapons as “evil things” and about the ethical application of science and scientific discovery.
To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb. The bomb’s colossal destructive power comes from the vast ...
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occurred in August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War. The two bombings, which killed at least ...
Groves approved Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico as a secret site for atomic bomb development and construction. Oppenheimer served as the director of this laboratory from 1943 to 1945.
So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... provide the amounts of heavy water they needed in the first stage of development at a relatively low cost. Heisenberg and his colleagues did not ...
the development of physics, the education of Chinese students in nuclear physics in the Soviet Union, the utilization of atomic energy, and the construction of a heavy-water research reactor, a ...