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SCIENCE: The first Atomic Bomb was successfully tested at Alamogordo,

New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Within weeks, the first gun type bomb,
named Little Boy, was used on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The
second implosion bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
on August 9, 1945, The next day after the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki,
Japan surrendered, thus ending the war.
QUESTION: (1) Who is the father of the Atomic Bomb? (2) What was
the Manhattan Project? (3) Why did Albert Einstein wrote a letter to
President Roosevelt, informing him of Germany's work with uranium.

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Answer:

1, robert oppenheimer 2 that was the project to build the atomic bomb 3 Einstein had written to Roosevelt research on fission chain reactions utilizing uranium made it probable that large amounts of power could be produced by a chain reaction and that, by harnessing this power, the construction of "extremely powerful bombs" was conceivable.

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