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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