Bomb: 12/17/13

Pages: 70-187
Prompt: Describe your least favorite character and explain why. Describe your most

favorite character and explain why.

In Bomb the main problem is that Germany and the U.S. are racing to build an atomic bomb. The U.S. finds some German labs and scientists and discover that Germany was about 2 years behind them. The main goal currently is to end the war in Japan without anymore U.S. deaths. They have one bomb of uranium but these take very long to make. They need to separate rare U-235, useful to bomb-makers, from common U-238, useless to bomb-makers. There is very little U-235 and it takes a long time to get. They developed a new bomb made of plutonium. They tried using the same design as the other bomb but it didn't work. They had to develop a new type of bomb. The only way to see if this bomb would work is to do a full scale test. The test was very dramatic because none of the scientists knew if the bomb would work. After the long 20 minute countdown the scientists were thrilled to see the bomb worked.

My least favorite character is Harry Gold. He is a Russian spy who got them most of their information. He convinces scientists inside of the project to give him highly confidential information. I don't like Russia's way of getting a Atomic Bomb. They are spying on other countries building bombs and are making using them to make them a bomb. They are not trying to make it themselves and are spying on their allies.

My favorite character is Robert Oppenheimer. He is the scientist in charge of the Manhattan project (code word for the building of the Atomic Bomb.) He is always running around solving different problems around the lab. He also did not give any info to the Russians when a spy came up to him and asked for info. He joined a Communist group but it was because he admired how the communists in Germany were standing up to the Nazis. I think that he is a very smart and hardworking person.