The 30's
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August 2 1939 - Albert Einstein writes President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
- The first actual atomic explosion took place in 1945. Read a book.TheBlueOne
- Sorry. Being pissy. Coffee machine broke.TheBlueOne
- atomic energy was discovered in the 30's. Abused in the 40's. The mushroom cloud was merely a useful imagekezza_2
- JazX0
- kezza_20
Blue one:
Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman in 1939.
- That is correct. But the first weaponized atomic explosion was 1945.TheBlueOne
- There was no "mushroom cloud" before '45. That's all I'm saying.TheBlueOne
- fine. get a coffee.kezza_2
- Well as long as we are in agreement.TheBlueOne
- atomic energy was discovered in the 30's. Abused in the 40's. The mushroom cloud was merely a useful imagekezza_2
- Atomic energy was theorized in the 30's. Created in the 40's for fuck's sake.TheBlueOne
- Jesus, what's so hard for you to wrap your head around this?TheBlueOne
- JazX0
- kezza_20
jesus BOne: arguments on the internet dont work...
"Many believe that Ernest Rutherford became the first person to deliberately split the atom by bombarding nitrogen with naturally occurring alpha particles from radioactive material and observing a proton emitted with energy higher than the alpha particle.[3] In 1932 his students John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under Rutherford's direction, attempted to split the nucleus by entirely artificial means, using a particle accelerator to bombard lithium with protons thereby producing two alpha particles. This did split the nucleus, but nevertheless was not quite the classical nuclear fission which is induced in heavy nuclei, because the daughter fragments are alpha particles — already well-known fragments of excited nuclei, and not considered to be a truly new phenomenon, even if two of them had been produced, and nothing else.
The first clear induced (manmade) nuclear fission as we know it occurred in results of the bombardment of uranium by neutrons, which proved interesting and puzzling. First studied by Enrico Fermi and his colleagues in 1934, these results were not properly interpreted and understood until several years later."
"In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons;[4] simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission.[5] Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939.[6] In 1944, Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. Some historians have documented the history of the discovery of nuclear fission and believe Meitner should have been awarded the Nobel Prize with Hahn."
- TheBlueOne0
Look kezza...someone put up a picture of a mushroom cloud and then you said "1939" which is just plain wrong.
The first mushroom cloud happened in 1945 with the Trinity Test in the first successful weaponization of atomic energy.
The practical use of atomic energy doesn't happen in the 1930's. Their are scientific tests and theories are formailzed, which is your point and to whit I agree.
That's my one and only point.
The discovery of it in working principle happened in the 30's, the practical use (weapons and fission reactors) in the 40's
If you want to keep arguing, on the internet or otherwise, you'll still be wrong on the points I have made.
Thank you.
- not that I give a fuck....TheBlueOne
- well done :)
you wonkezza_2 - *yeah meTheBlueOne
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