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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
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Enrico Fermi during the 1940s
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Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in the Laboratory
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U235 pellets
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cyclotron
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Stagg field, U of Chicago
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Stagg field, December, 1942
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Oak Ridge K-25 uranium Enrichment Facility
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Hanford
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Hanford area c reactor site
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George Kistiakowski
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Hiroshima, 1945
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Post WWII Developments – The Rise of Atomic Culture
The Coming of the Cold War – 1946 The Berlin Crisis Soviet Union Atomic Bomb – 1949 War in Korea – 1950 Development of the “Super” – Soviet H-Bomb – 1953 U.S. Bikini Test
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1951 Nevada Test, “Dog” – soldiers all killed 4 minutes after detonation – information not released until recently
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Tumbler Snapper operation, 1952
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