Rte 66 was not even paved until some time in the 30's, and in a few short years we have the atomic bomb. It is like we went from Little House on the Prarie to the Atomic Age in a split second.
2006-12-03 00:52:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
That would be because of the War. Technological development always progresses more quickly during warfare, as it concentrates govermnental minds. Notable warfare techno leaps have occured throughout history, and include the development of Fuze and explosive tech, Margarine, canned goods, Iron clad ships and submarines, Aircraft technology, Tanks, Psychiatry, Plastic Surgery, Penicillin production, Radio, Radar and Computing leaps, Rocketry. War is bad for people, but good for Science.
The Manhatten Project was the biggest combination of scientific minds, free thinkers, and government finance ever undertaken. It was international in its nature, and thats why the Bomb, arrived so quickly. The idea wasnt new, but the concentration of engineering and organisation was.
2006-12-03 01:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by agtfos 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is an example of what happens when we spare no expense for a project. Towns and roads and buildings spring up overnight. The city of Oak Ridge, TN grew up overnite. 20 billion (in2004 dollars) is alot of money to get 3 bombs ready for detonation.
from Wikepedia:
"Some Tennessee families were given two weeks' notice to vacate family farm lands that had been their home for generations. So secret was the site during WW2 that even the state governor was unaware that Oak Ridge (what was to become the fifth largest city in the state) was being built. At one point Oak Ridge plants were consuming 1/7th of all the electrical power being produced in the USA, more than the whole of New York City. Oak Ridge mainly produced uranium-235."
2006-12-03 12:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um...the atomic bomb was based on advances in physics, combined with the urgent need for military superiority during a global conflict (WW2), not on which roads in the United States were or were not paved during a previous decade.
-Aztec276
2006-12-03 09:00:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋