Manhattan Project Documentary

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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers The Manhattan Project, which was a joint venture between the U.S. Great Britain and Canada, resulting in the first successful development of a nuclear bomb. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:

Today on The Daily Dose, The Manhattan Project.

Cloaked in deep secrecy during World War Two, the Manhattan Project was a joint research and development project between the United States, Canada and Great Britain with the goal of developing the world’s first nuclear bomb. Led by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, the project began modestly in 1939, but quickly grew to employ more than 130,000 people at its peak operation. 90 percent of the project’s cost—nearly $24 billion in today’s currency—was spent on building factories for the production of fissile material, while less than 10 percent went to the actual development and production of nuclear bombs. Research took place at more than 30 sites across the U.S., England and Canada, yet despite its massive scope and reach, the Manhattan Project remained top secret throughout its seven year lifespan.

Two types of atomic bombs were developed concurrently, including the relatively simple gun-type fission bomb and the more complex implosion-type bomb, The first gun-type bomb, known as Thin Man, proved impractical for use with plutonium, so the project moved on to a second gun-type bomb known as Little Boy, despite the complexities of enriching its uranium 235 isotope. Nearly all of the program’s uranium enrichment occurred at the Clinton Engineering Works at Oak Ridge Tennessee, which included electromagnetic, gaseous and thermal enrichment techniques. A concurrent plutonium enrichment process was carried out at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, which designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, with additional reactors at the Hanford enrichment site in Washington State. These efforts would result in the first plutonium implosion-type bomb codenamed Fat Man, which was further refined and developed at Los Alamos.

The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb codenamed Trinity, which was detonated on July 16th, 1945 at New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range. A month later, Little Boy and Fat Man bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively, which would ultimately result in Japan’s unconditional surrender on August 15th, 1945, just four days before a third nuclear bomb was scheduled for detonation over a third major Japanese city. The Manhattan Project would formally end in 1946, after its final nuclear detonation test at Bikini Attol, known as Operation Crossroads. In January 1947, the Manhattan Project would be replaced by the creation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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So... From a "technology and civilization" perspective... The Manhattan Project could have been one of the worst "nuclear disasters" we created. There were "nuclear disasters" in the past with accidental contact with radioactive materials. Perhaps there was some unique situation where a demonstration of alpha radiation was constructed. However, the observers did not have the tools to measure the phenomenon.

Civilization has shifted around the presence of nuclear materials. Whole governments are tasked with securing gigantic weapons. Many of these weapons are inherently unstable, and likely to explode.

I'm glad I was a crew chief on jets. I could drop a speed handle and not cause the end of the world.

"It's not the end of the world..." That had to be either a real joke, or a serious taboo in any military that handles these things.

We are wasting too much energy guarding these things. We need to dismantle them. Any injustices can't be resolved by holding the planet hostage. That's like a hostage negotiator finding the hostage takers mother, and putting a gun to her head as a negotiation tool. It's insane.

How does this matter? Follow along this build up. It's like the TV explanation.

Students do better with others around them, studying the same thing with slightly different perspectives (like our bilateral sensory organs).
Students eventually answer a question or help refine a theory.
Students eventually wish to better the world, save it, with their knowledge and skills.
The world can be defined in many ways ; your home town, your kids, this country, this planet, this universe?
The motivation for these people to design a weapon to kill... It was immense. It's possible it was to force the imprisoned scientists... Von Braun... I'm sorry. It is very possible he took credit for the engineering and thought behind the first rocket engine.

The first gravity engine, or time engine, anything more powerful than a rocket... It will not be made. Not for weapons. We have other things we need to build...

The Manhattan Project enabled a cycle of psychopathic violence in the presence of NO DANGER. The world has yet to recover from the effects of WW1.

The Manhattan Project was a product of WW1 PTSD.

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1. It is not historically accurate to say that the bombing of Hiroshima led to Japan's surrender. There were several other factors including Russia's entry into the war against Japan. 2. The surrender was reported as unconditional although Japan got to keep the Emperor. Ultimately, the U.S. conceded to Japan's one requirement. (An earlier concession might have led to an earlier end to the war -- but then what would we have done with the bombs? And how else would the world have discovered just how destructive an atomic bomb could be?)

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It's not "new-cue-ler"... omg

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