Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Manhattan Project


In the year 1939 onwards initiated by then US president Roosevelt America started the creation of the then most deadly mass destructive weapon....Atom Bomb.The Project was headed by Robert J. Openheimer...and he chose Los Alamos for the project site at New Mexico.Quite ironically Los Alamon was a beautiful suburb area which contained a school of which Openheimer was once a student.Its a pity that he pushed the school and it's mentor,his one time teacher,out of their own place to create the Lab there.
There was another person from US army to look after the matter and his name was General Lesly Groves.He was a PhD scholar in physics.

The initial impetaus for the construction came from the Niels Bohr and that too when he understood his favourite student Heizenburg wrongly.Hitler had captured the total control of Germany at that time and was pushing all the non aryans and jews out of the country.Potsdamn in Germany was the famous university at that time which has housed eminent personalities like Albert Einstein.Like a mad power crazy man hitler pushed all the eminent physist out of the country leaving only the pure Germans like Heinzenburg,Oto Hunn and others.
At that time Heinzenburg somehow in a particular meeting spoke in such a topic which made him a pro-Hitler to Niels Bohr...though Heinzenburg was never in support of Hitler.In the mean time Oto Hunn has ruptured the heart of atom and Einstein has came up with the most famous equation of Physics E=mc^2.Along with this the experiment carried on my Madam Courie to get the Radium made the possiblity of getting enormous by rupturing the atoms.As German contains the most eminent league of physist everybody suspected Hitler for taking preparation to construct Atom Bomb.Niels Bohr thought his one time student Heinzenburg would assist Hitler in this act as he posed as the Pro-hitler to Bohr.But the fact was Heinzenburg was never abale to clear his position to his favourite sir..When time approached for Niels Bohr to leave Germany under the command of Hitler Heinzenburg managed a meeting with him but couldn't open up there to clear the confusion between them.Instead at that particular moment he asked Bohr " Do you think its possible for Germany to make an atom bomb " and Bohr being alarmed at this question replied " I'm not sure ".
Niels Bohr leaved for USA very soon after this meeting with the believe in his heart that Germany is preparing for atom bomb and he conveyed this message to the western world.

Leo zsilard who invented the chain reaction,realize the world to be in grave danger and was in search of a man who could aware the US Govt about the looming threat,he along with another scientist(i forgot his name rite now i'l let u knw letter) approached the Grand man of physics...Alber Einstein who was then retired in Long Island of USA.Einstein understood the whole scenarion in a minute and deceided to gave president Roosevelt a letter based on the present situation.It was belief that the content of this letter was wriiten by Leo zsilard,Einstein just put his signature in it.Nonetheless it was deceided to carry to Roosevelt by a wealthy businessman holding powerfull position in USA.Later Einstein also wrote 3 other letter to Roosevelt with the zist being the eminent catostrophy looming over the world by the name of Hitler who could be the proud owner of the atom bomb at any time.
You can see all the letter written by einstein to Roosevelt in the following URL
hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml

Thus Manhattan Project was started with four centres all over america,Los Alamos being the prime one.And later i will told about the lives of the scientist here and about the greatest espionage carried out here.

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