Bomb by Stephen Sheinkin

Suspicious cause friends are Soviet spy's

How did people feel about Oppenheimer being the lead physicist, the director of the project?

Zero

How many Norwegians are lost on the mission to blow up the Vemork heavy water plant

Adolph Hitler

Leader of Germany, committed suicide in his bunker after Germany had lost the war

Los Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project

Knut Haukelid

Norwegian Resistance fighter responsible for blowing up the Heavy Water Plant and destroying the German's supply of Heavy Water

Los Alamos

One chapter is titled "Disappearing Scientists." Where are the scientists disappearing to

That would be treason not interested

Oppenheimer is approached by his friend Chevalier who has a connection to the KGB. How does Oppenheimer respond?

Washington, D.C.

Pentagon

Saville Sax

Ted Hall's room mate

Leslie Groves

Who is chosen to lead the creation of the Manhattan Project? (Hint: He was an engineer who just oversaw the building of the Pentagon, the largest office building on the planet)

Robert Oppenheimer

Who was the "skinny superhero" who said, "I need physics more than friends" and left his date alone in the car while he walked back in to town?

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Uranium Enrichment facility

Clause Fuchs

What German born physicist was introduced with a potentially embarrassing (when mis-pronounced) name?

Take out the German heavy water plant

What did Great Britain train a group of Norwegians to do?

Uranium -235

What element was created when Uranium -238 was bombarded with flying neutrons?

goes radioactive/ chain reaction

What happens in the "Chicago Pile"?

Kill him

What is it suggested that Colonel Carl Eifler do with the German scientist Werner Heisenberg?

Harry Gold

What is the name of the spy who is recruited by Semyon Semyanov who was found out and arrested in the first passage of the book?

Ted Hall

What is the name of the young physicist who comes to work at Los Alamos who is described as a rebel, finished high school at 13?

The Gadget

What name do the scientists give the bomb to keep it more of a secret?

Baseball

What sport did Moe Berg play before accepting the mission to kill Werner Heisenberg

Little Man and Fat Boy

What were the names of the two bombs

Hall and Fuchs

Who are the two inside

Plot of the Enola Gay

Who is Paul Tibbets

Sergei Kurnakov

journalist and spy for the KGB

Paul Tibbets

pilots the plane Enola Gay, to drop the bombs

Joseph Stalin

president of the U.S.S. R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Klaus Fuchs

quiet 'scientist working on the bomb, also a spy,scientist on the Manhattan Project

Moe Berg

sent to assassinate Heisenberg

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

to whom was it addressed

Harry Gold

American spy for the KGB, eventually caught

"The gadget" Little Boy Fat Man

Bomb names

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister

No

Did Moe Berg kill Heisenberg

Leslie Groves

General in charge of the Manhattan Project

Semyon Semyonov

a spy for the KGB

Pearl Harbor

bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941

Hiroshima

bombed on August 6, 1945

Nagasaki

bombed on August 9, 1945

Enrico Fermi

conducted the experiment in Chicago called the "Chicago Pile" proved the possibility of the chain reaction

Lise Meitner

discovered fission

Otto Hahn

discovered fission

Albert Einstein

had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project but wrote a letter to FDR encouraging the president to pursue nuclear weapons research

Werner Heisenberg

head of the German bomb project

Robert Oppenheimer

head scientist/physicist for the Manhattan Project, scrawny, skinny, brilliant, focuses his mind well, father of the atomic bomb, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

Harry Truman

inherited the atomic bomb project and decided to use it on Japan after the war was already over in Europe.

yes

was the test a success

The American Bomb

what did Russia produce a replica of

the bomb

what is at the top of the steel tower

Implosion

what new method do Hall and Oppenheimer's team come up with that is valuable to the Soviets

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

what president ordered the assembly of the bomb

Harry Turman

what president ordered the bombs to be dropped

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

what were the two cities the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan?

Hitler

who committed suicide

Ted Hall

who was the one who got away

Albert Einstein

who wrote the letter at the beginning of last night's reading

Ted Hall

young but brilliant scientist, also a spy, scientist on the Manhattan Project, the one who got away due to lack of evidence