MANHATTAN PROJECT
Manhattan Project - correct answer Code name for the development of the atomic
bomb
Albert Einstein - correct answer -Austrian physicist who urged FDR to develop
atomic weapons before the NAZI's could. He went on to work on the Manhattan
Project
In the early 1930s Albert Einstein was among the Jews who left Nazi Germany.
Einstein was a pacifist who had opposed World War I; ironically he eventually
would see his scientific ideas applied to the creation of the most powerful
destructive weapon of the time, the atomic bomb.
-He developed the hypothesis that atoms could be split and cause a chain
reaction.
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer - correct answer - Chief physicist who directed the
Manhattan Project.
Los Alamos - correct answer -Trinity Tower
HARRY S. TRUMAN - correct answer - The President from Missouri Who Made
The Decision To Drop The Atomic Bombs On Japan.
U.S.S. Indianapolis - correct answer - The U.S. ship that delivered the Atomic
Bomb to Tinian
THE INDY WAS SUNK ON THE WAY TO THE PHILIPPINES
- correct answer -About 300 of the 1,196 men on board died in the sinking.
-The rest of the crew, 880 men, with few lifeboats and many without lifejackets,
floated in the water awaiting rescue.
-Only 321 sailors came out of the water alive; 317 ultimately survived.
-Gerald Poor lived in Rolla until his death in 2011.
