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=__Scientists That Created an Tested Nuclear Power__ By Becky=

There were numerous amounts of intelligent scientists working on creating and testing nuclear power. Creating nuclear power is a long complicated process that many devoted engineers, scientists, and physicists gave their time to. The atomic bomb itself took up to 3 years to create and test. FDR ordered the construction of the atomic bomb and Manhattan project in 1942 and it has remained a legend to this day. The dedicated people working on the Manhattan project worked long hours and dealt with thousands of complex mathematical calculations

Some of these brilliant scientists are well known like Einstein with his theory of relativity or Niels Bohr the scientist that created the atom model. Other scientists included Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Robert Wilson, Ernest O. Lawrence, Edward Teller, and Edwin M. McMillian. There was even James Chadwick, the man who discovered the neutron in 1932. All these genius people worked in the new Mexico in laboratories day and night keeping it a secret until this amazing new power was ready for testing.

The testing of this new power was a break through for the entire world. Las Almos New Mexico and a small pacific island were the bases of these tests. First released on a large scale at the University of Chicago in 1942 scientists began to think up the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was tested near Almogordo, New Mexico on July 16th 1945 in a deserted desert. It was here that the scientists knew the huge power of this new power. The hydrogen bomb later followed with a power 10 times more powerful and destructive than the atomic bomb. A peaceful solution came later on using this new nuclear power for electricity and machines.

Fat Man and Little Boy were names given to the new atomic bombs produced during the Manhattan project. The Test day for fat Man was a busy and chaiotic day for the scientists. Still unassembled it rode up to Trinity, New Mexico with Philip Morrison by its side. It rode between a car full of security and a car full of scientists. It was assembled on site and attached to the lift unit. Scientists and soldiers near by wondered the consequence of the lift chain breaking.

Soon soldiers were ordered to do something rather funny. They were ordered to collect as many mattresses as possible and pile them under the Fat Man lift. This became known as "Operation Mattress". Scientists hoped that if for any reason the lift should break and Fat Man fall, that the piles of mattresses would cushion the fall and prevent an unneeded explosion. Luckily, Fat Man was tested successfully and safely and scientists learned of its power.

Nuclear Power ended World War ll and many American lives were saved. Without these dedicated, devoted, brilliant scientists we may not have been able to create the world biggest power. The brains these scientists had combined with the security of America we were able to create and test a new weapon and power to end WWll. If these scientists hadn't come together to make this Nuclear Power who knows who would have discovered this deadly weapon next. We owe a big thanks to these scientists because of how much they gave to America. First the Atomic Bomb then the Hydrogen Bomb and later a safer more useful way for machines and factories. There was a great deal of heart and sweat that went into creating and testing nuclear power but we are so thankful for its great causes today.

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