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Atomic Heritage Foundation. “Manhattan Project Voices” 2012. 30 Jan, 2020 https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/
Many people worked on The Manhattan Project during World War II. This website tells the stories of all of these people and their families. This website provides lots of primary source information from interviews that are critical for my project.
Hersey, John “Hiroshima Quotes” 1946 27 Feb, 2020
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1014091-hiroshima
This book gave important quotes from the bombing of Hiroshima. It helped give a first-hand account about how the people in Japan felt, rather than how the people in America felt.
PlenilunePitures Youtube “J Robert Oppenheimer: Now I Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds” 1944. 10 Mar 2020
This interview of J Robert Oppenheimer displays his emotions of The Trinity Test. It showed how he really felt about what he created and how it's going to affect the world.
"Ronald Reagan Quotes." BrainyQuote.com. BrainyMedia Inc, 2020. 18 Feb 2020. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_102041
This web article gave quotes from Ronald Reagan and others that were important to The Manhattan Project and its Legacy.
Secondary
Atomic Heritage Foundation. “The Manhattan Project" 2017. 30 Jan 2020
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/manhattan-project
The Manhattan Project was made up of many foreign-born scientists that escaped the war in Europe. After moving to the U.S, a group was formed that created an atomic bomb known as The Manhattan project. This source gave the overall synopsis of The Manhattan Project. It was a great starting place where I branched out my research from.
Baroudos, Constance, “Nuclear Weapons Enable Peace” 2015. 13 Feb 2020
https://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/nuclear-weapons-enable-peace/
Ever since the invention of nuclear weapons, the amount of casualties in war dramatically decreased compared to those in the first two World Wars. This web article gave important information regarding the argument that nuclear weapons have created peace. It helped broaden my argument for why nuclear weapons enable peace.
Chodos, Alan. American Physical Society,”This Month in Physics History” 2007. 15 Feb 2020
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200712/physicshistory.cfm
In 1938, two German scientists were the first to successfully split an Uranium-235 atom. They quickly realized the importance of nuclear fission. This source gave information about the birth of nuclear fission and how it was of importance to the Manhattan Project.
Energy Northwest. “Nuclear Energy” 2017. 23 Feb 2020
https://www.energy-northwest.com/energy101/energysources/Pages/default.aspx
Nuclear energy is very effective and makes up a lot of America’s energy. This web article gave an overall idea of what nuclear energy is and why it's important. It helped me figure out what I needed to research in the future regarding nuclear energy.
Fuller, John. How Stuff Works, “The German Threat” 2008. 23 Feb 2020
https://science.howstuffworks.com/manhattan-project2.htm
After Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman split the atom for the first time, it was believed that the Germans were fast working on their own atomic weapon. They, along with many other scientists fled to America and warned Roosevelt about the rumors, and quickly got to work on nuclear research. This source gives the story of who and how the atom was first split and how the Manhattan Project officially began.
Frost, Adam. “Seventy Years After The Trinity Test, There are 16,000 Atomic Weapons in the World”, 2015. 15 Feb 2020 https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/70th-anniversary-trinity-test-there-are-16000-nuclear-weapons-world-180955944/
The Trinity Test was an event where the first ever atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The explosion was huge and was very powerful. I used this source to get an image of the Trinity Test and what the Trinity Test was.
History.com Editors. A&E Television Networks “Arms Race”, 2019. 30 Jan 2020
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/arms-race
The Nuclear Arms Race started when Russia produced and detonated their own atomic bomb. It started an Arms Race between America and Russia which eventually became The Cold War. This document provided information about what happened after the bombs were dropped on Japan and how big the impact of The Manhattan Project was.
IAEAVideo Youtube “Using The Atom To Fuel The Future” 2013. 10 Mar 2020
This video gave general information about the significance of Nuclear Energy. I used it as multimedia for my website.
International Committee of the Red Cross, “Nuclear Weapons, An Intolerable Threat to Humanity” 2018. 25 Feb 2020
https://www.icrc.org/en/nuclear-weapons-a-threat-to-humanity
Nuclear weapons are the most terrifying weapons ever invented because of the global chaos they can cause. This web article showed the power of nuclear weapons and how people would be scared of them, causing peace.
Jorgensen, Timothy. Massive Science, “Meet Lise Meitner” 2019. 22 Feb 2020
https://massivesci.com/articles/lise-meitner-nuclear-fission-physics-nobel-prize/
This article had a model of how an atom is split which I used as historical context about the atom being first split and how it contributed to the creation of an atom bomb.
McFadden, Christopher. Interesting Engineering, “Enrico Fermi, The Man Who Gave the World Nuclear Fission” 2018. 3 Feb 2020 https://interestingengineering.com/enrico-fermi-the-man-who-gave-the-world-nuclear-fission
Enrico Fermi was a very brilliant scientist and physicist who gave the world nuclear fission with his nuclear reactor prototype. He won the Nobel Prize and escaped to America to bring his knowledge of nuclear fission to The Manhattan Project. This source gave important information about the importance of Enrico Fermi in the Manhattan Project and how he became a part of it.
NNSA Youtube “On Deterrence” 2018. 18 Mar 2020
This video explained how nuclear weapons have led to peace and how if we got rid of them, the threat of war would be much larger.
Preceden “Nuclear Arms Race” 2020. 3 Mar 2020
https://www.preceden.com/timelines/38842-cold-war-arms-race
During the Nuclear Arms Race, the U.S. and the USSR developed many atomic weapons until a treaty was signed. This web article gave a timeline of the events of the Nuclear Arms Race.
Rhodes, Richard, “Why Nuclear Power Must be Part of the Energy Solution” 2018. 13 Feb 2020
Nuclear energy is a big change from older methods of power and it is much more effective with less pollution. This web article gave some in-depth information about nuclear energy and why it’s significant
Roser, Max “War and Peace” 2020. 29 Feb 2020
https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace#citation
Ever since the invention of nuclear weapons, the world has been more peaceful. This web article gave infographics and text that gave information significant to how nuclear weapons have caused peace.
Spalding, Robert “Nuclear Weapons are the U.S’ Instruments for Peace” 2013. 25 Feb 2020
Due to the fears that nuclear weapons have caused, there has been more peace in the world. This web article helped me to prove my point that nuclear weapons cause peace due to the fears that they have induced.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “Army Nuclear Power Program” 2012. 27 Feb 2020
https://www.usace.army.mil/About/History/Exhibits/Nuclear-Power-Program/
After the war, the United States wanted to use it’s nuclear intelligence for something peaceful. This web article gave basic information about the United States’ push for a peaceful use for nuclear power.
U.S. Department of Energy, “The History of Nuclear Energy” 13 Feb 2020 https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/The%20History%20of%20Nuclear%20Energy_0.pdf
In the Early 50’s, the U.S. Government pushed for a more peaceful use of Nuclear Energy. With that, power plants were built to grow Nuclear Energy and make it become more useful than natural gas. This source gave information about what happened after The Manhattan Project which really shows how it did break barriers.
Tech Insider “The Evolution of Nuclear Weapons” 2019. 18 Mar 2020
This video talked about how atomic weapons have evolved since they were first made. I used this to argue my point about how nuclear weapons have changed militaries across the world