do you know who invented atom bomb fusion
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Well the entire Manhattan Project was responsible for the creation of the first functioning atomic bomb. It required 130,000 people. J. Robert Oppenheimer was at the helm of the Manhattan Project when it succeeded.
From my reading of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes and my knowledge of physics and the history of physics, if you were going to look for one person whose contribution sped up the project by an indeterminate amount of time, it was the work of Leo Szilard (I believe he was only an advisor to the Manhattan Project and not directly contributing to it when the project completed). Many people contributed substantially and have a more distinguished scientific legacy; however,Leo Szilard had a belief that there had to be an element that could undergo a runaway nuclear fission reaction -- he took his belief from H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel "The World Set Free" (1914). He really had no real reason to believe this, but he set about finding such a reaction. As Savas Dimopoulos says, "the origin of a great discovery is knowing one thing that no one else does." In 1939 when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered neutrons were released in fission, Szilard knew immediately what this meant and immediately set off to build an energy source.
Szilard pushed hard, partnering with Albert Einstein and Edward Teller to get the US government to fund this research which ultimately led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Fermi was cautious and didn't want to over-promise and under-deliver. This would have put the atomic bomb on a much slower trajectory and it might not have commenced until after WWII, thereby delaying the atomic bomb potentially by decades (it cost $2B, equivalent to $24B today over 4 years during the largest war in World history). The USSR wouldn't have put in the same efforts into nuclear weapons research without the demonstration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US wouldn't have put the enormous efforts into the hydrogen bomb either.
I should say, that this this is probably not a good thing, though who knows, we might have had very bad wars rather than the Cold War. But without Szilard beliefs and going for the jugular, the atomic bomb and all nuclear physics funding would have been much lower and the development would have been delayed by an indeterminate period of time.
From my reading of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes and my knowledge of physics and the history of physics, if you were going to look for one person whose contribution sped up the project by an indeterminate amount of time, it was the work of Leo Szilard (I believe he was only an advisor to the Manhattan Project and not directly contributing to it when the project completed). Many people contributed substantially and have a more distinguished scientific legacy; however,Leo Szilard had a belief that there had to be an element that could undergo a runaway nuclear fission reaction -- he took his belief from H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel "The World Set Free" (1914). He really had no real reason to believe this, but he set about finding such a reaction. As Savas Dimopoulos says, "the origin of a great discovery is knowing one thing that no one else does." In 1939 when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered neutrons were released in fission, Szilard knew immediately what this meant and immediately set off to build an energy source.
Szilard pushed hard, partnering with Albert Einstein and Edward Teller to get the US government to fund this research which ultimately led to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Fermi was cautious and didn't want to over-promise and under-deliver. This would have put the atomic bomb on a much slower trajectory and it might not have commenced until after WWII, thereby delaying the atomic bomb potentially by decades (it cost $2B, equivalent to $24B today over 4 years during the largest war in World history). The USSR wouldn't have put in the same efforts into nuclear weapons research without the demonstration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US wouldn't have put the enormous efforts into the hydrogen bomb either.
I should say, that this this is probably not a good thing, though who knows, we might have had very bad wars rather than the Cold War. But without Szilard beliefs and going for the jugular, the atomic bomb and all nuclear physics funding would have been much lower and the development would have been delayed by an indeterminate period of time.
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hey.. ....Edward Taylor invented the atom bomb fusion .....hope it help u and plz mark me as a brainlist
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