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The Atomic Bomb
What is an Atomic Bomb? Powerful explosive nuclear weapon fueled by the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of specific isotopes of uranium or plutonium in a chain reaction What is fission?  The act or process of splitting into parts
Who created it and when? ,[object Object]
After the Germans surrendered, research continued in secret.
It cost nearly $2billion and more than 120,000 people were involved.
It was named the ‘Manhattan Project’.
On the 16th July 1945 the worlds first atomic bomb test was carried out in New Mexico.,[object Object]
Who has them? ,[object Object]
Russia has a similar supply. ,[object Object]
Japan & the Atomic Bomb ,[object Object]
It was dropped from the ‘Enola Gay’ and was nicknamed ‘Little Boy.’

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Atomic bomb

  • 2. What is an Atomic Bomb? Powerful explosive nuclear weapon fueled by the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of specific isotopes of uranium or plutonium in a chain reaction What is fission? The act or process of splitting into parts
  • 3.
  • 4. After the Germans surrendered, research continued in secret.
  • 5. It cost nearly $2billion and more than 120,000 people were involved.
  • 6. It was named the ‘Manhattan Project’.
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11. It was dropped from the ‘Enola Gay’ and was nicknamed ‘Little Boy.’
  • 12.
  • 13. Negative sides of the Atomic Bomb (people’s opinions) killed thousands of INNOCENT women, children and elderly. These were citizens that had never held a weapon and we killed them on their way to work and school. The thousands and likely millions of generations present and to come that suffer hereditary effects of radiation poisoning. Children are still suffering life-threatening illnesses and DYING from the atomic bomb. 
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  • 15. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION