The complexities surrounding the use of atomic bombs against Japan: Einstein’s Folly
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Ernest Rutherford
- Adolf Hitler's signs of loose inhibitions
- Establishing the Uranium Committee
- Truman's grand entrance
- Fateful days
- To bomb or not to bomb?
- A reflection on right and wrong
- Conclusion
Abstract
During the 1880's, at Cambridge University, J.J. Thompson, the director of the Cavendish Library and a respected physicist, became the first to discover that atoms had sub atomic particles. In 1896, Antione Becquerel, with the assistance of Marie Curie, discovered the first radioactive particle by accident when he left some uranium salts and some photographic plates in the same drawer. Marie Curie demonstrated that energy producing qualities of radioactive materials was because of the internal structure of the atom. She also discovered other radioactive elements, radium and polonium. Albert einstein, in 1905, followed all of these discoveries with one of the most infamous and powerful equation known to humankind, E=mc2. With this theory, einstein established the vital relationship between mass and energy; this being that energy is nothing more than liberated mass. This simple yet monumental principle along with the previously mentioned discoveries created a snowball effect with regard to scientific study and effectively created the realm of sub atomic theory.
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