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