Part one of term paper
The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey. The United States set out on the development because of fear-fear that the Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which would then use it against the U.S. In fact, the Germans had a head start because the underlying scientific fact, the fission of uranium, wa ...

Part two of term paper
... "Fat Man." The destructive power of the bomb is equivalent to over 17,000 tons of conventional explosive (TNT). The heat generated at the center of the explosion rose to four times the hottest temperature of the sun. The huge mushroom-shaped radioactive cloud climbed 42,000 feet in to the New Mexico sky. At ground zero it vaporized the steel and concrete tower that had held the bomb and created a crater 1,200 feet across. The triumph of scientific creativity and genius entered us into t ...