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Nuclear Rapture Prof. Weppner For Professor Lopez's Rapture class, April 10, 2007

Yosuke Yamahata He is the photographer that took the pictures that followed. He arrived in Nagasaki the day after the bomb went off.

E = mc^2

U-235 U-238 http://www.atomicarchive.com/ days later U-238 Pu-239

Isotopes of Uranium

Enriched Uranium

Stephane Groueff from Manhattan Project http://www.hcc.mnscu.edu/programs/dept/chem/abomb/page_id_31163.html Stephane Groueff from Manhattan Project

Hiroshima-August 6, 1945

A wood-frame house exposed to a nuclear blast at the Nevada Test Site on March 17, 1953. The house is 1,100 meters from ground zero. http://atomicarchive.com

Hiroshima – what happened....

To every man is given the key to the gate of heaven, the same key opens the gate of hell. And so it is with science. Richard Feynman, Physicist, 1963

Oppenheimer, "the father of the scientists"

From The Guardian, August 8th, 1945 http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127716,00.html