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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Alsos?
2. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
3. Who is Averell Harriman?
4. What is the name of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
5. What is Operation Barbarossa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
From the theoretical discussion of nuclear energy to the making of the atomic bomb is a relatively short period of time. Discuss what effect the wars have on this development. Would the bomb be developed as rapidly without the reality of the wars?
Essay Topic 2
In the first part of the book, the author discusses the biographical background and scientific accomplishments of many international scientists. Choose three scientists from the following list. Give a brief biographical sketch of the scientist, including his nationality and where he makes the discovery. Then identify what his/her scientific accomplishment is and what its importance is to the making of the atom bomb. Becquerel & the Curies; J. J. Thomson; Planck; Einstein; Rutherford; Bohr; Moseley; Meitner & Chadwick; Heisenberg & Schrödinger; and Chadwick
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the beginnings of the Manhattan Project. What is it? How does it get started? Who is involved in setting it up? What is the U.S. government's role in the project? What is the role of General Leslie Groves?
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