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Manhattan Project January 23, 1943 ==== Today, I received an important phone call form the famous Physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. He informed me to join with a big group of clever scientists to build a weapon of destruction. The weapon will be the key to prevent the war from continuing. Up to this date, millions of innocent lives had disappeared. Our government doesn’t want to see anymore-innocent lives perish. The location for the project is so secretive, that the mailing address was a code. It is also located in the middle of the United States, where there is little or no population. Dr. Oppenheimer also informed me that there could be a possible danger to building the weapon. Death can occur if an accident happens during the project. ==== After he finished talking about the project, he started to tell me about Nuclear Chain Reaction. Oppenheimer explained that Leó Szilárd proved that Nuclear Chain Reaction is possible for Uranium and Plutonium. I didn’t really understand him first, but then I realize what he was trying to say. The weapon of destruction is really the Atomic Bomb. That was probably why, he mentioned something about dangerous in making the weapon of destruction. Making the Atomic Bomb will be extremely difficult, because it’s still new to scientists. There were only calculations on making the Bomb on some blackboard. Tomorrow, the trip to Los Alamos is going to be very difficult for me. There are no directions to the secret location, because it’s still under construction. The size of the town is still unknown, but it will increase as more scientists’ moves in. The train is going to be very long, because I am moving from New York to New Mexico. The ride can be anywhere near three days to four days. In addition to that, there will also be a bus ride from the train station to Los Alamos. The duration of the bus ride can be long, because of the unpredictable weather. * * * Walking to the train station was a difficult thing to do; the runoff water had a deleterious effect on the ground. With water, there were many concomitant dangers to the muddy ground. Carrying the big luggage was the worst case scenario, which could happen during a rainy day. On a normal day, the trip from my house to the train stop is only an hour, but today, it took me about three hours to get to the train station. I had to walk extra slow, so it wouldn’t have a deleterious effect on me. As soon as I reached the train station, I ran up to catch the last train to New Mexico. The train that I got was for the afternoon, but due to the lateness, I weren’t able to catch it. Cause of the lateness, the train arrived at New Mexico four days later. In addition, the Bus ride was nothing like what I had expected. The voyage was long and it was rough. When I reached Los Alamos, I was greeted by the famous physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was nothing that I had anticipated, he was a lot older and he looked like he hadn’t eaten for a few weeks. But there was one thing that was true, he is a science prodigy. Dr. Oppenheimer was the leader for the scientific work that is done in the lab, while General Groves takes care of everything else. While I was eating in the cafe place, the office there assigned me a location to stay. The location weren’t so good, but it was really close to the lab, where I will be doing the researches. January 30, 1943 Working in the lab is extremely difficult; there were never tools to go around for everyone. In addition to that, there were never the right tools to use. But that was when the government came in to the play. When there were voluminous amounts of requests, the government decided to build a factory to build these requested tools. The point of the factory was trying to help the scientists build the tools, so they can expedite their progresses with the bomb. The worst part about this was that, the tools are not expediting the progresses at all. The scientists and physicists were having trouble on how the shape of the bomb will be and how it will be launched. One physicist wanted the bomb to be launched from cannon, but that theory was proved impossible. The reason was that the opening of the cannon will be very big and the bomb is also exceedingly heavy. That hard problem was solved when another physicist figured that that compression will work the best for an atomic bomb. It was the best solution, because the bomb wouldn’t be that big anymore. Since the solution was found, the physicists started to get more work done on the converting of Uranium to Plutonium.

August 6, 1945 The very first atomic bomb just hit Hiroshima, Japan this morning. The atomic bomb detonated on one of the biggest city in Japan. Within the second of the detonation, millions of people died instantly. Many more died within the day. In addition to that, even more people died from the diseases that were caused by the atomic bomb. The Atomic Bomb also vaporized all the buildings within the targeted area. During the detonation, the temperature reached ten times hotter than the sun’s normal temperature. That literally meant Japanese that were near the targeted area was burned alive. The heat that were giving off from the bomb is worst than getting burned by lava coming out of an active volcano. August 9, 1945 The second atomic bomb just hit Nagasaki, Japan this morning. This bomb was made from plutonium, so the bomb was fairly large. The bomber that dropped the bomb had to modify the carrier, so the plane was able to carry the over-sized bomb. Even after the first attack, the Japanese were still unaware of the special weapon that was being used on them.