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WWII and New Technologies

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1 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

2 Enrico Fermi during the 1940s

3 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in the Laboratory

4 U235 pellets

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7 cyclotron

8 Stagg field, U of Chicago

9 Stagg field, December, 1942

10 Oak Ridge K-25 uranium Enrichment Facility

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12 Hanford

13 Hanford area c reactor site

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16 George Kistiakowski

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18 Hiroshima, 1945

19 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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23 1951 Nevada Test, “Dog” – soldiers all killed 4 minutes after detonation – information not released until recently

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25 Tumbler Snapper operation, 1952


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