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Pages: 0-70Prompt: List five major events in order from which happened first to last.
The book Bomb is about "the race to build - and steal - the world's most powerful bomb.
The first major event is the discovery that fission is discovered. This is when a neutron hits a uranium atom and splits the uranium atom in two. One atom breaking has enough force to make a grain of sand jump. Although this is small a single ounce of uranium contains 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. The next major event is when Albert Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt, the president of the U.S. at the time. This is important because it causes the U.S. to begin researching the production of an atomic bomb.
The third major event is Pearl Harbor. After Pearl Harbor Robert Oppenheimer started to design the atomic bomb. It said earlier in the book that Oppenheimer would play a major role in the building of the atomic bomb. The fourth event is Oppenheimer is visited by a KGB agent. This is important because KGB agents were Russian spies trying to steal info about the atomic bomb. It also says that Oppenheimer's decision to not tell anyone would haunt him for the reset of his life.
The fifth major event is when Oppenheimer and Groves, the other leader of the bomb project chose a spot to use as their base. This is important because it is where all their experiments will be done.
I commented on Stanley, Gabe, and Abdiel's blog.
ReplyDeleteI learned a lot after reading your blog. I didn't know that uranium contained that many atoms! This looks like an interesting book and it's very educational. Great post.
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ReplyDeleteI liked that you gave details of each event. I found it very fascinating that one atom breaking up can result in a grain of sand jumping.
I love your post this week. I found it interesting that uranium contains so many atoms. Out of all five events, I only knew about Pearl Harbor. You post was very educational and fascinating.
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