Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb'

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Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb.
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Fission Fusion.

• Fission bombs were the first to be developed
  tested.
• Used towards the end of World War II.
• Fusion also hydrogen/thermonuclear bombs.
• Extremely powerful .
• Hydrogen isotopes of deuterium tritium fuse
  together.

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The First Atomic Bombs.

• Manhattan Project - J R Oppenheimer.
• Research and production of an unstable atomic
  bomb.
• Based on uranium-235 and 238 and the more
  experimental plutonium-239.
• Gaseous diffusion.

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Impact.

• Flash burns.
• Vast destruction - pressure waves high winds.
• Deadly gamma rays and neutrons.
• Destroy living matter contaminate soil and
  water

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Breakdown of the Atomic Bombs Blast Zones
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Nagasaki.

• August 9, 1945.
• Plutonium based.
• 39,000 fatalities over 25,00 injured.
• Radiation poisoning.
• Future generations affected.

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J R Oppenheimer.

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.