the atomic bomb [Theme] Page 2

In 8 hours 14 minutes 15 seconds of the sash opened bomb hatch on "Enola gay". And the ugly "Baby" began its slow descent by parachute ( few, apparently, are aware that the bomb flew rapidly down, and was down as much as 47 seconds the parachute).

In the summer of 1944, according to the memoirs of General groves, military head of the "Manhattan project" have specifically thought over the possible military application has not yet created nuclear weapons. That summer, on June 6, troops under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower began the implementation of a much more famous operation overlord landed in Northern France and thus opening a second front in Europe. But few realize that the "Manhattan project" involved people more than were listed in the ranks of the expeditionary force Eisenhower!

The opinion of the heads of the two leading capitalist powers were unanimous: these scientists when they get political, become unbearable. Would do the trick - bomb, and how to dispose of it, people decide more competent in military and political matters.

The prospect of releasing huge amounts of energy by splitting the atom will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the future of humanity. But hope, porozhdennye the opening may be overshadowed by the most sinister threats to the security of Nations, if the appropriate time is not achieved an international agreement on effective control of the new terrible weapons.

I think this is just good physics!

The United States is now able to defeat any power, or group of countries in a jiffy. So we declare war outside the law and demand immediate disarmament.

Our strategy in the field of protection of secrets very soon decided. It boiled down to three main objectives: to prevent the Germans any information about our program; to do everything possible to ensure that the use of bombs in the war was completely unexpected for the enemy; and, to the extent possible, to keep secret from the Russians our discoveries and the details of our projects and plants.

The beginning of the Second world war and at once ceased to come from Germany scientific information about the successes of the nuclear physicists of the disturbing alarm bell for those who had a head on his shoulders.

After the atomic bombings, we became quite obvious that these bombs and those still more terrible forces of destruction, the forerunners of which they are unable in an instant to destroy all humankind, and to break all existing between people connected.

I took the pictures. It was a spectacular sight. Mushroom ash-grey smoke with a red core. It was clear that inside there still burns. I was ordered to count the fires. Hell, I immediately realized that it was unthinkable! Whirling, boiling mist, like lava, closed the city and spreading to the sides to the foot of the hill... Everything in the cloud was death. With the smoke flew up some black debris. One of us said, "That the souls of the Japanese ascend to heaven".