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WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
A
a nuclear weapon was the only way to win the war.
B
the Germans might acquire such a weapon first.
C
the Japanese were at work on an atomic bomb project of their own.
D
scientists like Albert Einstein might be lost to the war effort.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Germans had even organized a special scientific unit headed by quantum physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg to develop an atomic weapon, amassing stockpiles of uranium for the effort.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1941 James Bryant Conant opened a liaison office between the British government and the National Defense Research Council of the United States. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, accelerated the development of an atomic bomb in the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Oppenheimer. A theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer became involved early in the scientific research that ultimately led to the Manhattan Project.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” On July 16, 1945, in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated-the Trinity Test. It created an enormous mushroom cloud some 40, 000 feet high and ushered in the Atomic Age.

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