skinny 17- foot bomb called “Thin Man.” Eventually, Thin Man was canceled in favor of a shorter design dubbed “Little Boy.” The program was ready for testing by 1945, but there was only enough U-235 for one bomb, so the test bomb—known as “the gadget”—was a plutonium device...
Until then, Truman had not been told of the Manhattan Project, but he was quickly briefed on the atomic bomb development. That summer, a test bomb code-named "The Gadget" was taken to a location in the New Mexico desert known as Jornada del Muerto, Spanish for "Journey of the Dead M...
Physicist Norris Bradbury sits next to The Gadget, the nuclear device created by scientists to test the world's first atomic bomb. To get an idea of how hard it was to keep the secret, consider the speed at which the Los Alamos compound grew. When the Army took over the 54,000 acre ...
The "gadget" was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot tower, and the countdown began. Oppenheimer was in a bunker 10,000 yards from Ground Zero where, before the test, he supposedly said, "Lord, these affairs are difficult on the heart." ...
By the end of the summer, we had accumulated enough evidence to say that this method was feasible. After much debate and many misgivings, we were given a go-ahead in October to incorporate triggered spark gaps into a firing unit for "the gadget," as the bomb was called. 鈥...
ready for use was when the serious program of their productionstarted. If the Americans had been convinced in 1940, rather than 1941, that an atomic bomb was worth seriously pursuing, then the Gadget might have been ready by July 1944, not July 1945.Couldthey have been convinced that early...
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The Gadget 作者:Zindel, Paul 出版社:Random House Childrens Books 出版年:2003-2 页数:192 定价:$ 7.90 装帧:Pap ISBN:9780440229513 豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到
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