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Parent topics
- Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
Subtopics
- J. Robert Oppenheimer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Enrico Fermi [r]: (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor. [e]
- George Kistiakowsky [r]: (1900 – 1982), leader of the chemical explosives team of the Manhattan Project [e]
- Leslie Groves [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear weapon, FAT MAN [r]: Code name for the second nuclear weapon used in warfare, a plutonium implosion fission device used against Nagasaki, Japan [e]
- Nuclear weapon, LITTLE BOY [r]: Code name for the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. [e]
- Carson Mark [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Los Alamos, New Mexico [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trinity test [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- B-29 [r]: Very heavy bomber, by Second World War standards, that carried out U.S. strategic bombing against Japan [e]
- Fission device [r]: An assembly of components, not necessarily in a form usable as a weapon, which will produce a large energy release through nuclear fission [e]
- Hiroshima (city) [r]: Japanese city; capital of Hiroshima prefecture in the Chugoku region of Honshu island. [e]
- Nagasaki (city) [r]: Capital city of Nagasaki prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu. [e]
- Harry S. Truman [r]: (1884-1972) President of the U.S. from 1945 to 1953. [e]
- Albert Einstein [r]: 20th-century physicist who formulated the theories of relativity. [e]
- Plutonium [r]: Man-made radioactive element (Z = 94); its 239 isotope is fissionable and used in nuclear weapons. [e]
- Uranium [r]: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles or the detonation of conventional explosives, but rather produce large-scale effects greater than possible with the same weight of explosives weapons; by means heat, blast and radiation from nuclear weapon; poisoning by chemical weapon; infectious disease by biological weapons; or acute or chronic radiation syndromes from radiological weapons. [e]
