Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs (Atomic). The United States set out on the development because of fear that Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which would then use it against the Unites States. ... Vice President Harry S Truman became the thirty-third president of the United States. ... Robert Oppenheimer, designed and built the first atomic bombs. ... Robert," Online Encyclopedia 2003. 1997-2003 Microsoft Corporation. ...

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Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton, and John Dunning in the United States, Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot in France, and Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Franz Strassman in Germany. (1) Each of these scientists raced to explain the conflicting results compiled from ingenious experimentation. ... The first nuclear weapon was built and tested in the United States. ... Second, appurtenance of the bomb would empower the United States, and not the USSR, to control postwar policy. ... From the list of atomic scientists Leslie groves appointed Robert Oppenheimer as the Scientific Dir...

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The mayor confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union did not happened in Europe. ... The United States" armed forces were at their highest state of quickness ever. ... One side was the United States and the other side was the Soviet Union and China. ... Attorney General Robert Kennedy suggested ignoring the second letter contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to tell him of the United States agreement with the first letter. ... This was the mayor confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union....

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FDR was very concerned and got the smartest people he could find to make one an atomic bomb for the United States. The father of the Manhattan Project was Robert Oppenheimer. ... They used one for testing and The United States still have one for use. ...

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Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City to German-Jewish parents. ... The United States government began to speculate about weapons that would make use of the discovery of fission, the splitting of the atom. ...

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Robert A. ... The United States remains vulnerable to nuclear, chemical, and biological attacks delivered by various means. ... An argument for a missile defense system says that rogue states could fire nuclear warheads at the United States. There are three reasons that the treat of a nuclear attack from a rogue states is highly unlikely. ... The argument that rouge states could strike us, at any moment, with ballistic missiles is very unlikely to happen. ...

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On August 2, 1939, just before WW2, Albert Einstein wrote to the President of the United States informing him of news that would change the field of science and warfare forever. ... Shortly following this news, the United States began what came to be known as the Manhattan Project, a project committed to the research and production of an atomic bomb(Documentation 2). ... The work was done in what is called a self - imposed blackout on publication in order to keep German scientists from using the work of U.S. scientists to speed up the development of their bomb, and get the advantage of th...

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" (Robert Aumann). ... In a diplomatic ambit, this would be a dispute over territory in which both States want the same portion of land. ... At the time the president of the United States was John F. ... Placing this kind of weapons in Cuba would detonate the United States government to a potential attack against the Soviet Union. ... States would have attacked Cuba and it would all have turned out into a big battlefield of nuclear weapons. ...

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So, the United States started supplying China with war gear. This caused Japan to see United States as a target. ... This was a catalyst that brought the United States into World War II. ... Robert Oppenheimer led The Manhattan Project. ... Truman became President of the United States. ...

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It was written by Robert O" Brien which was first published in 1973 and was written during the "Cold War", wrote it. ... The main character in the novel is Ann Burden, from Burden Valley, in the United States of America. ... In conclusion, I believe that Robert O"Briens purpose in writing this novel was to show the reader the consequences of a nuclear war, and to let us know how horrifying it would be to survive. ...

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Shortly after that the United States Government began work on the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the United States effort to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans did. ... Robert Oppenheimer."... "The explosion created s brilliant flash that was seen in three states."...

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Never before had any nation almost completely incinerated an opposing nation, and never before had the United States fully showed the world the extent of its abilities. ... The Manhattan Project eventually skyrocketed into a two billion dollar program that was always funded by the United States government. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant theoretical physicist who was a professor at Berkeley and at Caltech. At various secret locations around the United States, countless scientists were involved, although a great percentage knew only that some sort of "gadget" was being built, the terms "...

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He beat out Senator Robert Taft for the nomination. ... The winner only needs two hundred and seventy electoral votes to become the President of the United States. ... The United States had 33,629 causalities and another 105,785 were wounded. ... " As President, Dwight Eisenhower was a good leader and did many positive things for the United States. ... Without Eisenhower, the United States probably would have become embroiled in another war. ...

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Nonetheless, the United States had a secret weapon: the atomic bomb. ... Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist that headed the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb recalled that "I don't think there was any time where we worked harder at the speed-up than in the period after the German surrender.". ... It is also the opinion of many historians that traditional firebombing would have been just as effective in damaging Japanese moral and cities, without making the United States the first country to ever use nuclear arms. ...

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The name "Manhattan Project" was derived from the Manhattan Engineer District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. ... Several laboratories in the United States were used to work on and develop this weapon of mass destruction. ... The United States dropped the second and final bomb on August 9, 1945 on Nagasaki. ... American Civil War General Robert E. ...

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(Robert Harney) On the other hand, they can also destroy them, that are much easier than steal them, but probably cause much more serious result. ... For example, the United States of America, a country spent at least 5,800,000,000,000 dollars including other costs due to the producing nuclear weapons from 1940~1996. ...

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Nuclear Energy During the early stages of nuclear power there were many accidents that resulted in several people's deaths and the destruction of millions of dollars of property. The accidents at Chernobyl which killed over 30 people and the incident at Three Mile Island are just a few of the cata...

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Nuclear Energy During the early stages of nuclear power there were many accidents that resulted in several people's deaths and the destruction of millions of dollars of property. The accidents at Chernobyl which killed over 30 people and the incident at Three Mile Island are just a few of the cata...

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Nuclear Energy During the early stages of nuclear power there were many accidents that resulted in several people's deaths and the destruction of millions of dollars of property. The accidents at Chernobyl which killed over 30 people and the incident at Three Mile Island are just a few of the cata...

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He is a member of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. ... A terrorist group claims responsibility, and unless the United States meets their demands within a week, another explosion in a major city will occur... and then and another and another. ...

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