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WWII and New Technologies Rockets – V1 and V2 Synthetic Rubber New Pesticides – DDT Radar Electronic Digital Computing – ENIAC Penicillin The Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Energy

Enrico Fermi during the 1940s

Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in the Laboratory

U235 pellets

cyclotron

Stagg field, U of Chicago

Stagg field, December, 1942

Oak Ridge K-25 uranium Enrichment Facility

Hanford

Hanford area c reactor site

George Kistiakowski

Hiroshima, 1945

Post WWII Developments – The Rise of Atomic Culture The Coming of the Cold War – 1946 The Berlin Crisis -- 1948 Soviet Union Atomic Bomb – 1949 War in Korea – 1950 Development of the “Super” – 1951-1953 Soviet H-Bomb – 1953 U.S. Bikini Test -- 1954

1951 Nevada Test, “Dog” – soldiers all killed 4 minutes after detonation – information not released until recently

Tumbler Snapper operation, 1952