HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Day After Trinity, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Lise Meitner
1 Oct 2017
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1939: lise meitner & otto frisch by mid 1930"s theoretical physicists emigrated to britain and us. Fission: uranium nucleus split into more nuclei and energy is released. Robert oppenheimer suggested consolidation of bomb work in one place. July 1945: first test done at trinity test site first nuclear explosion in history. Made effort to build atomic bomb because he felt it was necessary question 4: why did scientists feel hiroshima bomb was necessary. Worry about fascism and there was no way of stopping it from being done. There was supposed to be a third bomb. Truman asked to make hydrogen bomb, it had 1000 times destructive force of atomic bomb. Tested on an island and it disintegrated island and left mile wide crater on ocean floor. Question 1: examples of how the film depicts oppenheimer in both a positive and negative light. Radical thinker, sharp mind, politically liberal. charismatic and persuasive, very wide range of interests(eg marx/lenin, spoke 6 languages)
