I choose this book because 1, World War II is my favorite war. And 2, The Atomic Bomb is awesome. I hope that i'll learn more about the making of the Atomic Bomb, and maybe a little more about WWII.
I chose this book because I did some research on the atomic bomb before, and I thought it was a good to learn a little more about the atomic bomb and this book would help me do that. I would like to learn more about how Americans helped make the atomic bomb possible.
I chose this book because the destruction the bomb caused and how powerful science can be. I would like to learn why the Americans thought it was necessary to use a weapon that could eliminate the entire human race.
I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about WW2 and about the atomic bomb. I hope to learn why both countries wanted to make such a destructive weapon and be able to use it against each other again if necessary.
I chose this book because my favorite war is WWII and that the atomic bomb is the most powerful weapon in the world, I mean really, who wouldn't want to read about that. I want to learn how many problems there were in creating the atomic bomb.
I chose this book because it is about the atomic bomb which uses nuclear fission. I mainly chose this book just because of the science behind the bomb.
I picked this book because i was interested in the atomic bomb. How it got started, and who were all the people who made it. I also wanted to learn the affect it had on people, and about WW2
The fission the book is talking about is Nuclear Fission. Nuclear Fission is a nuclear reaction where a nucleus of an atom splits on impact & release a large amount of power/energy.
They beat him up because to them, Robert was better than those boys, which he kind of was, and to them Robert was a threat, he was someone who would have a better life than them. That is kind of the same thing with me.
President Roosevelt was probably really busy on the war. Also at the time physics was really just theories so Roosevelt could've thought that fission was just a hoax or he just didn't know much of physics
It is like a symbol of someone after doing something that people will remember you by. Like in Home Alone, the bandits called themselves the wet bandits and they always left the water running in the house they robbed.
I think Oppenheimer is a little crazy, but yet again, he might have been so wrapped up in physics, that he wasn't paying attention. His did say though he was a little nuts.
Oppenheimer probably didn't notice that the Great Depression didn't exist for 6 months because he was probably working on an experiment or something else dealing with physics.
He probably never noticed how the prices were rising because he was living in the upper class after college. He also was really trying to test himself with physics, chemistry, biology, and almost any other science category there is.
It is an expression. When you catch an elephant's tail, the elephant goes crazy, and she meant that this idea in this field is odd, not correct to earlier research, and also crazy.
I am confused on what the whole fission thing. What does it mean and why do they say it a lot. It has to be important because they mention it a lot if it wasn't they would have just mentioned it once or twice.
Nuclear Fission is a nuclear reaction where a nucleus of an atom splits on impact & release a large amount of power/energy. So like when the book is talking about fission it means like when the Uranium or Plutonium splits into 2. The fission process is important because it is the essential of the Atomic Bomb. The energy that is created when the Uranium or Plutonium splits into 2 is large enough to create a mass destruction when known to contain and direct it correctly.
actually that's not entirely true fission is what happens when a radioactive elements sub-atomic particles crash into the uranium atoms which dosent join them but instead cracks the atom in two which releases enough energy to make a grain of sand jump which dosent sound like much but remember how tiny atoms are and how many there are.
I am wondering why the German scientist didn't go to Adolf Hitler to tell him about this discovery? I mean if you want terrorism, make the atomic bomb to scare the countries. I'm not saying I'm in favor of that idea, but I'm just thinking, why not make that and win the war on terrorism.
The German "scientist" was from Soviet Union. At the time, the Soviet Unions were not exactly allies with Germany. They were fighting against each other. Also Adolf Hitler already knew about the atomic bomb. He had won the race to build the Atomic Bomb & actually built an Atomic Bomb before us, but could not drop it on us due to other complications.
Well, after the peace treaty was signed. Why didn't he tell them about the formula, and since he was a soviet, why would he go to America? Wasn't America and Russia in a large conflict during this time? Also, they both were in a cold war with each other like 2 years after WWII? I mean seriously, why don't you go to the country you are spying on. I'm not saying I'm happy he went to America, but come on!
He also wanted to scare all the other countries to tell them not to mess with Germany. It was almost a threat from Hitler to all other countries in the world to either join or be destroyed in the process.
I don't understand why his parents would keep him inside for just being sick. But if they didn't, he wouldn't have been so smart because he would be playing with the other boys instead of reading and writing poetry.
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If someone from a country discovers a new way of science, why would he go to a different country to tell them the news? I mean if you are going to tell someone about this great find, why not tell your own country? In the book's situation, doctor Otto Hahn went to America to tell about his find. Why?
Well what if Germany had spy's and other people trying to figure out what this find is. If they had the chance they would definetly take it. So he went to a different country.
What was that chance they would take? If you think about it, the book said he was working in Germany for his entire life, if he was a spy, he would have to be one for the Germans, wouldn't he?
Not all of the Germans were bad, Szilard and Wigner came from Europe to the U.S. when Hitler was taking over. Hahn just wanted to help the U.S. take down Hitler.
Just because someone was another race doesn't mean they can't choose what they believe. Otto Hahn was German but it doesn't mean he had to agree with Germany's ways. He could've thought America was better and had better ways so he agreed to help them.
I am wondering why gold worked for the soviets in the first place when they were just going to treat him badly when he decided not to work for them anymore.
When America dropped the bombs, what do you think would have happened if they hadn't gone off and exploded. Would Japan have fought back knowing we tried to blow them up?
I think Japan would be more alert, but would not attack because America would be ready when they came to attack because it would take so long for them to get over there.
Well Japan wouldn't just sit there and let America get another chance to bomb them. Just think if that happened to our country, instead of just sitting there waiting for another attack, we would fight back.
If America just lost some of there bombs take advantage of that. Also it will take a little bit to get more bombs so they have an opportunity unless America planned that (to have bombs fail) so they could counter attack.
I think that if the bombs didn't go off, the Japanese would have fought back and would get people out of the city or to bomb shelters. That way if when they are gone and America attacks, the people won't get hurt, and the Japanese will get the chance to counter attack
I wonder what would've happened if Nuclear Fission wasn't discovered when it was. Would the war have gone on longer? Would Japan would've surrendered when they did? It seems like Nuclear Fission was very important yet deadly.
I think if fission was never found, the war would have lasted until the early to mid fifties. They wouldn't be able to stop the war, so it would go on and on, until eventually someone gave up
The problem wasn't very much the need for uranium it was mostly to stop uranium from possibly being put on illegal markets and sold to other countries against germany.
Then the U.S. probably would take their time on making the bomb instead of making it as fast as they could because they knew that Germany and Japan were also making the bomb.
If the secrets didn't get out Germany would have probably won being the only ones able to create the bombs unless spies were able to steal the information.
How could they control the neutrons from flying off the atom? It said that the neutrons fly off and hit another atom, and when that happens it causes energy, but how could they make it fly off?
When the bombs were dropped, the atoms started splitting in mid-air. The timing had to be precise or else they would have went off in the air. The force of impact hitting the ground caused the atoms to release all the energy stored inside.
I think that if the Vemork Heavy Water Plant was never destroyed, another country besides ours would have been able to or close to making an Atomic Bomb because Heavy Water are used to cool down Nuclear Reactors and destroying the Vemork Heavy Water Plant probably slowed down Norways Atomic Bomb research
I think they would, because Pearl Harbor was bombed 3 or 4 years before they nuked nagasaki and hiroshima, so they would have eventually joined the war and would've dropped the bombs, because the bombs were dropped to end the war, not out of revenge
I chose this book because the I wanted to know the way the atomic bomb was made because I wanted to know how the uranium atoms when they split cause a massive release of energy .
I was shocked that Hitler committed suicide because if he really believe in what he did he did why didn't he just fight until the war ended. What do you think?
I'm pretty sure he killed himself because he thought he was going to be tourchered to death. Would you rather die painfully and slowly, or die quickly?
They needed to shut down the heavy water plant to stop Germany from destroying everything, and killing everyone, think of it as a sacrifice those British men made without knowing it.
he did not leave because he knew somewhere somehow someone would find him. He probably thought better i kill myself them give them the pride to kill me.
Something that shocked me was Hitler killed himself. I knew that he did that, but what shocked me is that they weren’t really losing. They were working with Japan, and Japan was doing really well. So why did he kill himself? It just shocks me he’d kill himself when they were winning.
I think he killed himself because if the American army got a hold of him,he would have got tortured.So it would just be like the torture camps but he would be in one.
Ya I agree with Josie that I think the U.S. would've won anyway. I think Hitler knew if he went into hiding, the U.S. Special Forces would've found him anyway
Something that shocked was how long it took was how long it took for Japan to surrender after Germany surrendered. I thought that they would have surrendered after the first atomic bomb was dropped.
They would have but the military refused, and wanted to keep fighting for their country. The government wanted to surrender. I think the military was blinded by their eagerness to defend their country that they didn't see the damage that was being done also.
It was a shocker to me when the agents working for the U.S., went to the heavy water plant, climb up a 600 ft trench, blew the heavy water plant up, and got out without a scratch! When this happened, what was your reaction?
I think they knew what they were doing when they sent in the new commandos because if they didnt blow up that water plant Germany might have won the race
I am kind of surprised that the atomic bomb test could be heard form Texas when it went off in Alamogordo, New Mexico and the bomb could also SHAKE the glass in Texas.
I wonder how the men who dropped the bomb from the plane must have felt after knowing it just killed thousands of innocent people in the blink of an eye.
I choose this book because 1, World War II is my favorite war. And 2, The Atomic Bomb is awesome. I hope that i'll learn more about the making of the Atomic Bomb, and maybe a little more about WWII.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book becueues ive wanted to read it for a long time. I really just wnt to learn the back round history.
ReplyDeleteI just like to learn about World War two and what happened. It's just cool to learn about major events that happened.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because I have heard so much about it and I would like to learn more about the Japaneses concentration camp that the guy went to.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because I want to learn about the atomic bomb because it caused so much destruction for its size.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because I did some research on the atomic bomb before, and I thought it was a good to learn a little more about the atomic bomb and this book would help me do that. I would like to learn more about how Americans helped make the atomic bomb possible.
ReplyDeleteJosie i think the book your thinking of is Unbroken when the one guy becomes a Prisoner of War. This is the making of the Atomic Bomb
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because the destruction the bomb caused and how powerful science can be. I would like to learn why the Americans thought it was necessary to use a weapon that could eliminate the entire human race.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because i've heard about the destruction of the atomic bomb and i'd like to learn how someone could make such a destructive device
ReplyDeleteI chose to read this book because I like reading about World War II & Bomb talks about WWII and the Atomic Bomb which I also like learning about.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this because the book was a nuclear warfare and how to make an atomic bomb
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because I wanted to learn more about WW2 and about the atomic bomb. I hope to learn why both countries wanted to make such a destructive weapon and be able to use it against each other again if necessary.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because my favorite war is WWII and that the atomic bomb is the most powerful weapon in the world, I mean really, who wouldn't want to read about that. I want to learn how many problems there were in creating the atomic bomb.
ReplyDeleteI chose this book because it is about the atomic bomb which uses nuclear fission. I mainly chose this book just because of the science behind the bomb.
ReplyDeleteI choose this book because i want to learn more about how the atomic bomb works and why it was made. I also want to learn more about WWII
ReplyDeleteI picked this book because i was interested in the atomic bomb. How it got started, and who were all the people who made it. I also wanted to learn the affect it had on people, and about WW2
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering on page 21 why Germany is taking all the uranium, whether they are making a bomb or waiting to make the bomb.
ReplyDeleteGermany know that Uranium can be used to make atomic bombs & they don't want us to get hold of it & build a atomic bomb.
DeleteI agree with Nelson, since a German spy heard what they were doing. They took all the Uranium so that they would have the advantage.
DeleteI think they stole it because if America got their hands on
Deleteit they could build more atomic bombs.
What is fission? I'm confused on what it is. They have said it a lot so it must be important to making the atomic bomb.
ReplyDeleteIt is when something is divided into two or more pieces.
DeleteThe fission the book is talking about is Nuclear Fission. Nuclear Fission is a nuclear reaction where a nucleus of an atom splits on impact & release a large amount of power/energy.
DeleteI did not understand why the kids at camp beat up Robert hie did not do anything to them.
ReplyDeleteThey beat him up because he was different and to them different was bad.
DeleteThey beat him up because to them, Robert was better than those boys, which he kind of was, and to them Robert was a threat, he was someone who would have a better life than them. That is kind of the same thing with me.
DeleteThey beat him up because they thought he was a nerd and he had no friends and that he wasnt like anyone
DeleteThey beat him up because he was differnt, the thought that he was kind of spoild. Anyway he was a threat to them even though he really wasn't
Deletethey also hurt him because they thought he was a nerd and they hated him they thought he was a no it all dommie
DeleteI am confused on how the President of the United States does not know about fission even though it is in the newspaper.
ReplyDeletePresident Roosevelt was probably really busy on the war. Also at the time physics was really just theories so Roosevelt could've thought that fission was just a hoax or he just didn't know much of physics
DeleteThe president probably had way more important things
Deleteto do like worrying about the war that was going on.
I am wondering when did the scientists start seeing atoms through teloscopes.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't understand is why they would cover him in paint, it just doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteIt is like a symbol of someone after doing something that people will remember you by. Like in Home Alone, the bandits called themselves the wet bandits and they always left the water running in the house they robbed.
Deletei've seen shows where people warn other people they were there by drawing a symbal on them with black ink, its kind of like that
DeleteI do not understand why Harry Gold didn't run/ go back to Soviet Union after spying on U.S. after WWII was over.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand how someone does not hear about the great depression until 6 months after it started
ReplyDeleteI think that Oppenheimer is really into Physics and trying to understand it so much that he just doesn't pay much attention to anything else.
Deletewell the great depression didnt seem to really effect him and he didnt seem to care much about what was around him
DeleteI still think it would have affected him because the price of stuff would have gone up.
DeleteI think Oppenheimer is a little crazy, but yet again, he might have been so wrapped up in physics, that he wasn't paying attention. His did say though he was a little nuts.
DeleteOppenheimer probably didn't notice that the Great Depression didn't exist for 6 months because he was probably working on an experiment or something else dealing with physics.
DeleteHe probably never noticed how the prices were rising because he was living in the upper class after college. He also was really trying to test himself with physics, chemistry, biology, and almost any other science category there is.
Deletewhat does frish mean by "i feel i caught an elephants tail"
ReplyDeleteIt is an expression. When you catch an elephant's tail, the elephant goes crazy, and she meant that this idea in this field is odd, not correct to earlier research, and also crazy.
DeleteI am confused on what the whole fission thing. What does it mean and why do they say it a lot. It has to be important because they mention it a lot if it wasn't they would have just mentioned it once or twice.
ReplyDeleteNuclear Fission is a nuclear reaction where a nucleus of an atom splits on impact & release a large amount of power/energy. So like when the book is talking about fission it means like when the Uranium or Plutonium splits into 2. The fission process is important because it is the essential of the Atomic Bomb. The energy that is created when the Uranium or Plutonium splits into 2 is large enough to create a mass destruction when known to contain and direct it correctly.
DeleteFission is the reaction when two atoms combine together @Luke Z.
ReplyDeleteactually that's not entirely true fission is what happens when a radioactive elements sub-atomic particles crash into the uranium atoms which dosent join them but instead cracks the atom in two which releases enough energy to make a grain of sand jump which dosent sound like much but remember how tiny atoms are and how many there are.
DeleteI am wondering why the German scientist didn't go to Adolf Hitler to tell him about this discovery? I mean if you want terrorism, make the atomic bomb to scare the countries. I'm not saying I'm in favor of that idea, but I'm just thinking, why not make that and win the war on terrorism.
ReplyDeleteThe German "scientist" was from Soviet Union. At the time, the Soviet Unions were not exactly allies with Germany. They were fighting against each other. Also Adolf Hitler already knew about the atomic bomb. He had won the race to build the Atomic Bomb & actually built an Atomic Bomb before us, but could not drop it on us due to other complications.
DeleteWell, after the peace treaty was signed. Why didn't he tell them about the formula, and since he was a soviet, why would he go to America? Wasn't America and Russia in a large conflict during this time? Also, they both were in a cold war with each other like 2 years after WWII? I mean seriously, why don't you go to the country you are spying on. I'm not saying I'm happy he went to America, but come on!
DeleteI dont understand why hitler wanted to bomb there ali, probibly to sent a message saying they do not want to be there ali anymore
ReplyDeleteHe started not to trust them, and he wanted to show how powerful he is.
DeleteHe also wanted to scare all the other countries to tell them not to mess with Germany. It was almost a threat from Hitler to all other countries in the world to either join or be destroyed in the process.
DeleteIt was probably a sacrifice Hitler was willing to make.
DeleteI don't understand why his parents would keep him inside for just being sick. But if they didn't, he wouldn't have been so smart because he would be playing with the other boys instead of reading and writing poetry.
ReplyDeleteHis parents must have been really protective or just wanted him to learn a lot more than the usual kid/student.
DeleteI did not understand why Tom Black wanted Harry to join the communist party.
ReplyDeleteTom wanted Harry to join because he could be a spy, because nobody would think he's a spy because he never left his hometown.
Deletethey thought no one would expect him because he was a nice guy who everyone was sure of, and people thought he never left his home town
DeleteIt said he had family in Germany, but the book never said he lived in Germany. I'm confused because I don't know if he's German, or if he's American
ReplyDeleteIm kinda confused how they crashed and how it exactly happend
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ReplyDeleteIf someone from a country discovers a new way of science, why would he go to a different country to tell them the news? I mean if you are going to tell someone about this great find, why not tell your own country? In the book's situation, doctor Otto Hahn went to America to tell about his find. Why?
ReplyDeleteWell what if Germany had spy's and other people trying to figure out what this find is. If they had the chance they would definetly take it. So he went to a different country.
DeleteWhat was that chance they would take? If you think about it, the book said he was working in Germany for his entire life, if he was a spy, he would have to be one for the Germans, wouldn't he?
DeleteHe went to the country to tell more scientist about the descoery to see if they were supprised and knew what he was talking about
DeleteMaybe he didn't like Hitler, or maybe the American ways were more pleasing to him and he did not want Hitler to be in power.
DeleteOtto Hahn is German and he help build the Atomic Bomb, Do you think he should of treated his country like that?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he thought Germany was doing wrong things and maybe he didn't want Hitler taking complete control of the world.
DeleteNot all of the Germans were bad, Szilard and Wigner came from Europe to the U.S. when Hitler was taking over. Hahn just wanted to help the U.S. take down Hitler.
DeleteMaybe he wanted to see Hitler without the atomic bomb so that Germany couldn't destroy everything else.
DeleteMaybe Hitler did something that made him really mad so he came to the U.S.A. to work against hitler.
DeleteWell, probably thought the germans were really bad people so he didn't wanna stick around and wait and see what would happen.
DeleteJust because someone was another race doesn't mean they can't choose what they believe. Otto Hahn was German but it doesn't mean he had to agree with Germany's ways. He could've thought America was better and had better ways so he agreed to help them.
DeleteHow can atoms shoot out like a cannonball shooting out like a cannon?
ReplyDeleteWhen they split they bounce off of each other creating energy.
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DeleteWhen uranium neutrons come off the atom, the atoms have radioactive energy pushing the neutrons away from the atom.
DeleteWhat do you think would happen if oppenheimer never helped with the atomic bomb
ReplyDeleteI think the work on the atomic bomb would've slowed down dramatically and I also think that Germany would've won the race
DeleteI think it would have been really slow work and it might not have been done correctly.
DeleteThe atomic bomb would never have been built because without him, no one would have known so much about physics.
DeleteI think something would be missing and the atomic bomb wouldn't work as well.
DeleteI think if they did not have him help build the atomic bomb the
Deletework time would have taken a lot longer.And things would be
different about he bomb.
I am wondering why gold worked for the soviets in the first place when they were just going to treat him badly when he decided not to work for them anymore.
ReplyDeleteI think he just needed money and had no where to go and get money.
DeleteGold also wanted information on the soviets because he was a spy .
DeleteGoing back to chapter one why was Harry Gold so important and why is everyone against him??
ReplyDeleteHarry Gold was a spy for Soviet Union. He was gathering information about what the U.S. was trying to do/build.
DeleteWhen America dropped the bombs, what do you think would have happened if they hadn't gone off and exploded. Would Japan have fought back knowing we tried to blow them up?
ReplyDeleteI think Japan would have fought back if the bombs did not go off
Deletebut the bombs did go off and a lot of people were killed.
I think Japan would be more alert, but would not attack because America would be ready when they came to attack because it would take so long for them to get over there.
DeleteWell Japan wouldn't just sit there and let America get another chance to bomb them. Just think if that happened to our country, instead of just sitting there waiting for another attack, we would fight back.
DeleteIf America just lost some of there bombs take advantage of that. Also it will take a little bit to get more bombs so they have an opportunity unless America planned that (to have bombs fail) so they could counter attack.
DeleteI think that if the bombs didn't go off, the Japanese would have fought back and would get people out of the city or to bomb shelters. That way if when they are gone and America attacks, the people won't get hurt, and the Japanese will get the chance to counter attack
Deleteof course they would, because it would of been on accsident for us not to blow them up
DeleteI wonder what would've happened if Nuclear Fission wasn't discovered when it was. Would the war have gone on longer? Would Japan would've surrendered when they did? It seems like Nuclear Fission was very important yet deadly.
ReplyDeleteI think it would've continued because you wouldn't surrender if they're was not a deadly weapon or military.
DeleteThey war would have lasted for a long time and they would have only had smaller boms to work with.
DeleteI think if fission was never found, the war would have lasted until the early to mid fifties. They wouldn't be able to stop the war, so it would go on and on, until eventually someone gave up
Deletewell i think if they never discoverd it they would of found somthing else to do
DeleteWhat do you think would happen if Germany didn't stop the uranium sale and just took a chunk of what was found each day?
ReplyDeleteThings would be different in the war because Amarica ould have goting it and the war could have been over.
DeleteThe problem wasn't very much the need for uranium it was mostly to stop uranium from possibly being put on illegal markets and sold to other countries against germany.
DeleteThen the uranium would have been sold or kept by people
Deletethat should not have uranium.
For being worlds strongest bomb they didn't really hold onto the secret to well but if the secret didn't get out what would have happened?
ReplyDeleteThen the U.S. probably would take their time on making the bomb instead of making it as fast as they could because they knew that Germany and Japan were also making the bomb.
DeleteThe first to find out the secret would have an advantage and most likely won the war.
DeleteIf the secrets didn't get out Germany would have probably won being the only ones able to create the bombs unless spies were able to steal the information.
DeleteHow could they control the neutrons from flying off the atom? It said that the neutrons fly off and hit another atom, and when that happens it causes energy, but how could they make it fly off?
ReplyDeleteWhen the bombs were dropped, the atoms started splitting in mid-air. The timing had to be precise or else they would have went off in the air. The force of impact hitting the ground caused the atoms to release all the energy stored inside.
DeleteWhat would've happened if the Vemork Heavy Water Plant was never destroyed or the equipment was never destroyed.
ReplyDeleteI think that if the Vemork Heavy Water Plant was never destroyed, another country besides ours would have been able to or close to making an Atomic Bomb because Heavy Water are used to cool down Nuclear Reactors and destroying the Vemork Heavy Water Plant probably slowed down Norways Atomic Bomb research
DeleteI don't understand how you could just not know about the great depression until 6 months after it happened. So im guessing it did not affect him??
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how you could just not know about the great depression until 6 months after it happened. So im guessing it did not affect him??
ReplyDeleteWhat would have happened if gold did not help build the atomic bomb.
ReplyDeleteIf Japan would have never attacked pearl harbor do you think the United States would still have bombed them?
ReplyDeleteI think they would, because Pearl Harbor was bombed 3 or 4 years before they nuked nagasaki and hiroshima, so they would have eventually joined the war and would've dropped the bombs, because the bombs were dropped to end the war, not out of revenge
Deleteno because they declared war after Pearl Harbor was bombed because they were upset
Deletewhat do you think would happen if oppenheimer never had a part in the atomic bomb
DeleteI chose this book because the I wanted to know the way the atomic bomb was made because I wanted to know how the uranium atoms when they split cause a massive release of energy .
ReplyDeleteWhy did the japanese need us oil?? I didn't really understand that part.
ReplyDeleteWhat shocked me was how the British commandos died and still the army sent in more people to sabotage vemork heavy water plant
ReplyDeleteWhat shocked me was how the British commandos died and still the army sent in more people to sabotage vemork heavy water plant
ReplyDeleteI am shocked when the Germans surrendered when Hitler committed suicide. Then the U.S helped by bombing Japan. What do you think.
ReplyDeleteI think Hitler could have fled at some point and keep fighting, but that the Americans would have found him
DeleteThat shocked me alittle to. I can't believe how far this wr has gone. Where they all tried to bomb each other, and steal stuff from other country.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked that Hitler committed suicide because if he really believe in what he did he did why didn't he just fight until the war ended. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteHe was probably afraid that the U.S. was going to use the atomic bombs on him. So he killed himself.
DeleteHe probably did that because he thought that he was going to get punished or captured because and killed.
DeleteBecause he knew they would find a way to punish him. He really did not want people to be satisfied for it.
DeleteHe couldn't fight to the end. He was totally defeated. So he killed himself.
DeleteHe was afraid of getting punished so he killed himself.
DeleteWhen hitler committed suicide because he was scared because he thought he was going to get punished. Why
ReplyDeleteHe was probably seeing no end in sight so he killed himself.
DeleteI'm pretty sure he killed himself because he thought he was going to be tourchered to death. Would you rather die painfully and slowly, or die quickly?
DeleteHe probably didn't want to deal with what would happen to him.
DeleteThey needed to shut down the heavy water plant to stop Germany from destroying everything, and killing everyone, think of it as a sacrifice those British men made without knowing it.
ReplyDeleteThat shocked me too because if the British commandoes died wouldn't that tell them that going there is to dangerous.
ReplyDeleteWhen Hitle killed himself because he knew he was going to loss
ReplyDeletehe did not leave because he knew somewhere somehow someone would find him. He probably thought better i kill myself them give them the pride to kill me.
ReplyDeleteSomething that shocked me was Hitler killed himself. I knew that he did that, but what shocked me is that they weren’t really losing. They were working with Japan, and Japan was doing really well. So why did he kill himself? It just shocks me he’d kill himself when they were winning.
ReplyDeleteGermany was not winning. Hitler was in Germany knowing he was going to be captured. He did not want the Americans to capture him so he killed himself.
DeleteWell they technically aren't winning at the time so he did this because he knew they were going to fail.
DeleteI think he killed himself because if the
DeleteAmerican army got a hold of him,he would have got
tortured.So it would just be like the torture camps
but he would be in one.
Some thing that shocked me was when hitler killed himself even though win could have won, if he wouldn't have killed himself.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they he could have won at all I think The U.S would have won.
DeleteYa I agree with Josie that I think the U.S. would've won anyway. I think Hitler knew if he went into hiding, the U.S. Special Forces would've found him anyway
DeleteSomething that shocked was how long it took was how long it took for Japan to surrender after Germany surrendered. I thought that they would have surrendered after the first atomic bomb was dropped.
ReplyDeleteJapan just tried their best to fight back but they weren't strong enough to fight against the great and powerful United States Of America military. :)
DeleteThey would have but the military refused, and wanted to keep fighting for their country. The government wanted to surrender. I think the military was blinded by their eagerness to defend their country that they didn't see the damage that was being done also.
DeleteI think he left Germany so he did not have to be punished for all the crimes he committed.
ReplyDeleteI am shocked by the amount of destruction the atomic caused, up to 20,000 pounds of TNT equivalent
ReplyDeleteI think he could have fled, but they would have found him at some point and probably bombed him.
ReplyDeleteIt was a shocker to me when the agents working for the U.S., went to the heavy water plant, climb up a 600 ft trench, blew the heavy water plant up, and got out without a scratch! When this happened, what was your reaction?
ReplyDeleteI think they knew what they were doing when they sent in the new commandos because if they didnt blow up that water plant Germany might have won the race
ReplyDeleteI am kind of surprised that the atomic bomb test could be heard form Texas when it went off in Alamogordo, New Mexico and the bomb could also SHAKE the glass in Texas.
ReplyDeleteI think he could have left because he Had Allies.
ReplyDeleteHitler was a coward. He made REALLY bad decisions and he didn't want to be punished for his actions.
ReplyDeleteI think Hitler was not able to escape and if he did get to Japan, they would've because America and Britain could take him down eventually.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that plutonium could expand in heat. I never knew it could do that. How is it possible for plutonium to expand? Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the men who dropped the bomb from the plane must have felt after knowing it just killed thousands of innocent people in the blink of an eye.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Hitler could've fled because the U.S. were closing in on his location already and it was probably too late for him to flee
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