Manhattan Project Museum: Journey Through History

1. Welcome to the Museum of The Manhattan Project Museum Entrance Production of atom bomb Devastation Room Scientists Room Aftermath Room Decision Room Curator’s Offices

2. Curator’s Office Samuel J. Kreins I am a leader and enjoy to control the group as well as being part of one. Welcome to the museum of the Manhattan project that we have put together for you. We hope that you enjoy. kreins3@yahoo.com Return to Entry Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

3. Scientists Room Room 1 Return to Entry

4. Devastation Room Room 2 Return to Entry

5. Production of atom bomb Room 3 Return to Entry

6. Aftermath of nuclear warfare Room 4 Return to Entry

7. Decision Room Room 5 Artifact 21 Return to Entry

8. Some Manhattan Project Scientists Some Manhattan Project Scientists: from left to right: Bohr, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Fermi. These are some of the scientists involved in the making of the Atomic Bomb. They worked at the Los Alamos center in New Mexico. http://mrmouatmwh2011.wikispaces.com/Topic%2017%20(Manhattan%20Project) Return to Exhibit

9. Robert Oppenheimer This is Robert Oppenheimer. He was one of the main scientists involved in the researching and building of the atomic bomb. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=scientists+of+the+manhattan+project&view=detailv2&&&id=AB19DDA9A7E2CCA5D641556B7C763D3DD5E5CDB4&selectedIndex=39&ccid=6bOlAMRm&simid=608037807707391295&thid=JN.qPJGE1ChxVvabh1D6MVgjg&ajaxhist=0 Return to Exhibit

10. Ernest Wilkins Ernest Wilkins, black scientist in the Manhattan Project. He had an important role in the isolating of the uranium while building the bomb. http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2015/05/ernest-wilkins-negro-genius.html Return to Exhibit

11. Lilli Hornig There were also many women scientists that were in the Manhattan Project. This is Lilli Hornig, She was a scientist at Los Almos. http://www.atomicheritage.org/article/women-scientists-manhattan-project Return to Exhibit

12. People Died More than 100 million soldiers and civilians are estimated to have died during the international and civil wars of the twentieth century. although this is almost an unimaginable number, there is cause for some hope, even as there is also cause for despair. The hope arises from historical evidence that the number of international wars, civil wars, and other types of armed conflict has in fact declined over the centuries, with the number in the past half-century much smaller than in centuries past Reflecting this decline, a smaller percentage of the world’s population died in armed conflict during the past century than in earlier eras https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=924&q=atom+bomb+devestaion&oq=atom+bomb+devestaion&gs_l=img.3...2791.17163.0.37533.20.12.0.8.8.0.120.1336.0j12.12.0....0...1ac..64.img..6.14.1338.mmQDUmk2djI Return to Exhibit

13. Explosions In 1946, the Manhattan Engineer District published a study that concluded that 66,000 people were killed at Hiroshima out of a population of 255,000. Of that number, 45,000 died on the first day and 19,000 during the next four months. In addition, "several hundred" survivors were expected to die from radiation-induced cancers and leukemia over the next 30 years. http://www.warbirdforum.com/hirodead.htm Return to Exhibit

14. Devestation The Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions yielded some 200 different kinds of radioactive isotopes, that is, nuclear fission particles of uranium and plutonium that escaped fission. Following the explosions, these and other materials irradiated by neutrons from the bomb, were carried high into the atmosphere. http://atomicbombmuseum.org/3_radioactivity.shtml Return to Exhibit

15. Effects of the bomb • The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima Return to Exhibit

16. Expolsions The most complicated issue to be addressed in making of an atomic bomb was the production of ample amounts of "enriched" uranium to sustain a chain reaction. At the time, uranium-235 was very hard to extract. http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm Return to Exhibit

17. Enriched Uranium The most complicated issue to be addressed in making of an atomic bomb was the production of ample amounts of "enriched" uranium to sustain a chain reaction. At the time, uranium-235 was very hard to extract. http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm Return to Exhibit

18. Manufactuing Plants A massive enrichment laboratory/plant was constructed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm Return to Exhibit

19. Construction Harold Urey and his colleagues at Columbia University devised an extraction system that worked on the principle of gaseous diffusion, and Ernest Lawrence (inventor of the Cyclotron) at the University of California in Berkeley implemented a process involving magnetic separation of the two isotopes. http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm Return to Exhibit

20. Japans nuclear power Today, Japan's nuclear energy infrastructure makes it eminently capable of constructing nuclear weapons at will. The de-militarization of Japan and the protection of the United States' nuclear umbrella have led to a strong policy of non-weaponization of nuclear technology, but in the face of nuclear weapons testing by North Korea, some politicians and former military officials in Japan are calling for a reversal of this policy. http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-in-america.htm Return to Exhibit

21. Free of Possibility? There is no more Cold War, so is there a threat of nuclear war in America or is the country free from this possibility? It is true that the Cold War ended in the late 1980's under the Reagan Administration. However, the missile age didn't fully end at that time. Russia and the U.S. both have stockpiles of nuclear weapons which have been slowly reduced over the past 20 years. http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-in-america.htm Return to Exhibit

22. Is there threat of nuclear war? The threat of nuclear war in America is still a reality. It is not brought to light very often, but the possibility does still remain. North Korea has ballistic nuclear warhead equipped missiles that can reach the West Coast of America. For years, Russia has had ballistic missiles that can reach all areas within the U.S. Iran is aggressively working on a nuclear program which seems to involve the creation of nuclear weapons. http://33-minutes.com/33-minutes/nuclear-war-in-america.htm Return to Exhibit

23. Define Nuclear Warfare Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=strict&q=define+nuclear+warfare Return to Exhibit

24. Pearl Harbor Attack This attack influenced our decision to drop the bomb on japan. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=pearl+harbor+attack Return to Exhibit

25. Harry Truman Harry Truman was in charge when we dropped the bomb. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch& q=harry+truman Return to Exhibit

26. Newspaper Article This was in the newspaper about the atom bomb. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=decision+to+drop+atom+bomb Return to Exhibit

27. Atomic Bomb Article This is an article on the decision to drop the Atomic bomb. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=decision+to+drop+atom+bomb Return to Exhibit

28. Atomic Bomb This is the Atomic Bomb we dropped on Japan. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=decision+to+drop+atom+bomb&imgrc=8tEnk_z1S0xj-M%253A%3BWT_vRtMsRZ4hyM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi2.cdn.turner.com%252Fcnnnext%252Fdam%252Fassets%252F130408120842-hiroshima-bomb-story-top.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.cnn.com%252F2013%252F08%252F06%252Fworld%252Fasia%252Fbtn-atomic-bombs%252F%3B640%3B360 Return to Exhibit

29. Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was the building and dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan. Return to Entrance

30. Sign by the Labs They didn’t want the word to get out that they were building an Atomic bomb. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fcRwVe_0D4zSoASb1oLoCQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=Manhattan+project&imgrc=cL3KVtqjMHVRPM%253A%3BHmiv9Dx0yFJEuM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fatomictrauma.files.wordpress.com%252F2012%252F04%252Fcropped-manhattan-project-sign6.jpg%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fatomictrauma.wordpress.com%252Fthe-scientists%252Fthe-women-of-the-manhattan-project%252F%3B1000%3B374 Return to Entrance

31. Blast Radius This it the blast radius of the Atomic Bomb. https://www.google.com/search?q=images&safe=strict&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9bxwVb33ComoogSqxIGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=decision+to+drop+atom+bomb&imgrc=6S4i34JCkEXY9M%253A%3BNSO1QiKDT6nsSM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F6%252F62%252FHiroshima_Damage_Map.gif%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcsis.org%252Fblog%252Funderstanding-decision-drop-bomb-hiroshima-and-nagasaki%3B1024%3B976 Return to Exhibit