who invented the atomic bomb?

Answer 1

The atomic bomb was invented by two refugee German scientists in Britain, Professor Rudolph Peierls and Otto Frisch, of Birmingham University. They designed a "blue-print" for making an atom bomb in 1940
It actually began when the Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, working in the United States, invented an apparatus which produced the first atomic chain reactions. In 1940 both the Americans and British were researching the atom bomb and when the United States entered WW2, the British joined the American "Manhattan Project" and production of the bomb went on ahead in the US.

The first atom bomb has lead to development such as the hydrogen and nuclear bomb, which are much more powerful than the first atomic bomb. However because of damages to our environment and atmosphere, programmes for such development has been limited and treaty are signed between major countries around the world.

The explosion of an atom bomb consists of an immense release of energy caused by the chain reaction in which more and more atoms are split. The reaction begins when on atom of U-235 or plutonium (a radioactive by-product of nuclear fission) splits under the impact of a single neutron. The atom splits into two fragments and at the same time releases more neutrons, which then split more atoms, and so on, in a self-sustaining sequence. The whole process only takes one millionth of a second to complete, but in order for a chain reaction to occur there has to be a certain quantity of U-235 of plutonium present

Answer 2

The entire concept of the atomic bomb is built around Einstein's equation E=MC(squared). Although he did not technically build the bomb itself, he did notify president Truman that the Germans and the Japanese could be developing a weapon of this sort to use against the US. The fact that he proved that massive amounts of energy can be released by splitting an atom was seminal to the invention of the weapon.

Answer 3

massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Harold C. Urey and his colleagues at Columbia University devised an extraction system that worked on the principle of gaseous diffusion, and Ernest O. Lawrence (inventor of the Cyclotron) at the University of California in Berkeley implemented a process involving magnetic separation of the two isotopes.

Next, a gas centrifuge was used to further separate the lighter U-235 from the heavier, non-fissionable U-238. Once all of these procedures had been completed, all that needed to be done was to put to the test the entire concept behind atomic fission ("splitting the atom," in layman's terms).

Answer 4

While there is no one person that the invention of the Atomic bomb can be credited too, there is no doubt that the single most critical discovery that made it possible was conceived by Leo Szilard.

He conceived the concept of fission via a chain reaction as opposed to the commonly held belief at the time that fission would have to occur instantaneously by the total mass in order to release sufficient energy to be of use as a net positive energy process.

The history of fission is more complicated than today’s history books tend to portray. In fact the history of fission seems to share much in common with contemporary experiences with research into fusion.

“He who forgets history is condemned to repeat it”.

Answer 5

The first nuclear weapons were created in the United States, by an international team including many displaced émigré scientists from central Europe with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada, during World War II as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. While the first weapons were developed primarily out of fear that Nazi Germany would develop them first, they were eventually used against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The Soviet Union developed and tested their first nuclear weapon in 1949, based partially on information obtained from Soviet espionage in the United States. Both the U.S. and USSR would go on to develop weapons powered by nuclear fusion (hydrogen bombs) by the mid-1950s.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Albert Einstein started the first few steps and opened the gates for the other scientists to work on it as he could not bear war.

Answer 8

I don't think you can really point to one person. That said, I'll submit J. Robert Oppenheimer as the inventor.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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