Background+Info+on+Nuclear+Weapons

=﻿How it all started:=

During the 19th century, there were many new profound discoveries which dealt with science.

 * **1801** – //Thomas Young//: double-slit experiment showing wave-particle duality
 * **1820** – //Hans Christian Ørsted// discovers the connection of electricity and magnetism
 * **1843** – //James Prescott Joule// measures the equivalence between mechanical work and heat, resulting in the law of conservation of energy
 * **1845** – //Christian Doppler// demonstrates the Doppler shift
 * **1851** – //Léon Foucault// uses Foucault pendulum is to demonstrate the rotation of the earth
 * **1859** – //Charles Darwin// publishes The Origin of Species showing that evolution occurs by natural selection
 * **1861** – //Louis Pasteur// disproves the theory of spontaneous generation
 * **1863** – //Gregor Mendel's// pea plant experiments (Mendel's laws of inheritance)
 * **1887** – //Heinrich Hertz// discovers the photoelectric effect
 * **1887** – //Michelson// and //Morley//: Michelson-Morley experiment, showing that the speed of light is invariant
 * **1896** – //Henri Becquerel// discovers radioactivity
 * **1897** – //J. J. Thomson// discovers the electron

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=The trigger for the creation of nuclear bombs -- Manhattan Project:=

====﻿The Manhattan Project was a secret project that the US government deployed in order to create nuclear weapons to use against Japan during WWII. It was with this project that the Trinity (first nuclear bomb created in the US), was tested in Los Alamos and gave the scientists the proper result. Later on, the US created two more bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man, were detonated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.====

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Quick Facts:

 * Nuclear Weapons release a huge amount of energy from nuclear reactions such as fission or fusion.
 * first developed in the US during the Manhattan Project of WWII
 * largest detonated bomb was the Tsar Bomba a Russian 50 megaton bomb

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