Bomb

What was Knut Haukelid's contribution to the bomb race?

He helped a resistance group destroy a ferry carrying the last of the heavy water.

Why did the AEC strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance?

He opposed the hydrogen bomb

Why was it important to prevent Germans from getting heavy water?

Heavy water was the key to the German bomb

What did boys learn in the International Gangster School?

How to pick locks, crack safes, set booby traps, use poison, and parachute out of planes

Why was it necessary to use the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan?

Japanese officials were only going to surrender as a last resort

Who is the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

Joseph Stalin

Who was Oppenheimer's most reliable ally?

Knut Haukelid

What was Ted Hall's punishment?

None

Where was the heavy water plant located?

Norway

What frustrated Groves about the planning of the uranium committee?

Not knowing how much uranium it would take to make a bomb

What radioactive material was used to make the bombs?

Plutonium

Who was the lead scientist of the Manhattan project?

Robert Oppenheimer

How did Truman become president?

Roosevelt died

Who is the author of bomb?

Steve Sheinkin

Who was the nineteen year old spy?

Ted Hall

Who ran the International Gangster School?

The British

What did the Germans call the Special Training School No.3?

The International Gangster School

True or false: Oppenheimer refused to give information to the Soviets.

True

How many years behind was Germany in their research?

Two years

What DENSE radioactive material was used to make the bombs?

Uranium

Who did the Americans plan to kidnap to interrupt Hitler's bomb research?

Werner Heisenberg

Who was the lead German scientist?

Werner Heisenberg.

What form of communication gave away that Gold and Fuchs were spies?

telegraph

What sentence did Fuchs receive before being charged by the British court?

14 years in U.S. Prison

What was Harry Gold's punishment?

30 years in U.S. Prison

Who was Klaus Fuchs?

A spy for the soviets who worked on the Manhattan project

What was a cyanide tablet

A suicide pill

Who wrote the letter to the president convincing him to start the race for the bomb?

Albert Einstein

True or false: all soviet spies were of Russian decent?

False

What did Otto Hahn discover in his lab?

Fission

Who was the military head of the Manhattan project?

General Groves

What country was in the race against America to build the atomic bomb?

Germany

What was the main reason the Germans were so behind?

The production of heavy water halted.

What was Enormouz?

The soviet code for the importance of stealing the bomb from the Americans.

How did Harry Gold come about becoming a spy for the Soviets?

To repay Tom black for getting him a job at the soap factory.