Who invented the Atomic Bomb?

Answer 1

49 of the Manhattan Project scientists (including Oppenheimer) petitioned the US government not to use the weapon they had developed on any innocent civilians (including Japanese). It was a bit late considering they had made and designed the bombs and handed them to the Millitary already. A copy of the rather ironic letter is on display in the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb museum.

I don't think its fair to label Einstein as the creator, as his intentions were never to devise a way of making this bomb and he never helped to create it directly (ie people some of his theories). A hell of alot more knowlage was needed to create the bomb, there not as simple as you may think!

If you want to trace it back why not go to the dicoverer of Uranium or radiation. Oppenheimer made it happen, therefore the inventor.

Answer 2

I cannot believe that there are those that would blame Einstein for the government's and the military decision to develop and use the atomic bomb at the close of WW-II. Blaming Einstein for the bomb is like blaming Isaac Newton every time a plane fall out of the sky, for working out the formula describing how gravity works. That would make no sense at all. Einstein worked out the equations for E=MC^2 in 1905 just (almost as an after thought) a little later than he did for Special Relativity. All that E=MC^2 means, on the surface of it, is that there is a relationship between energy and rest mass. That holds true for all matter and energy in the universe. In fact, up and until it was discovered how to induce fission nuclear reaction, Einstein thought that nuclear fission could never be made to occur at an efficiency level which would permit getting more energy out of the reaction than was put into it. If you want to blame someone for the development of the bomb and its use, blame the world. It was a time in which the world had gone a bit more than just a little mad.

Answer 3

The atomic bomb was developed by a group of scientists led by Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller at Los Alamos , New Mexico during WWII. Teller was particularly interested in designing a "super" bomb, the hydrogen bomb.
The project was called the Manhattan Project, and culminated
in the production of several working models, two of which the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
This led to the ultimate surrender of Japan in WWII.

Answer 4

Robert Oppenheimer is credited with being the maker of the A-Bomb.

Professor Rudolph Peierls and Otto Frisch, of Birmingham University. They designed a "blue-print" for making an atom bomb in 1940

Answer 5

the atomic bomb was invented by a team of scientists working on what was called the "manhatten project"... albert einstien is the most well known of the people working in this group.

Answer 6

I would say Einstein, with his famous equation E=MC²
Energy output = mass times the speed of light times the speed of light.
Oppenheimer was basically an engineer who was given the task to oversee the research and development of the bomb

Answer 7

J. Robert Oppenhiemer, scientific director of "The Manhatten Project"

An interesting piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer

Answer 8

define 'invented'.
It was albert Einsteins famous equation E=Mc^2, that led people to realise the enourmous energy that could be unleashed if a chain reaction could be sustained.... from there on it was just a matter of R&D

Answer 9

Here is an amazing, easy-to-read article about this subject that I highly recommend. It contains the famous "Einstein to Roosevelt" letter. Be sure to read that letter. It's quite historical. (Also, always trust whatever Zettag above says about physics.)

http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html

Answer 10

Einstein,,,,, Planck,,,, Heisenburg,,, Oppenheimer,,,, Teller,,,, Fermi....Just a few I can think of quickly. That should give you enough to read for about 3 years