Einstein warned Roosevelt that the Germans were using this element, uranium-235 or rather purifying it to make a bomb against the United States. The United States decided to call a 'Manhattan Project' for research. I remember my Grandpa talking about the problems that the 'Manhattan project' had. He had said that they were not sure how to produce ample amounts of 'enriched' uranium to sustain a chain reaction. He never went into much about how hard it was to extract uranium-235 at the time. One time in my history class, I remembered that the conversion from uranium ore to uranium metal is 500:1. My question is: How in the world did the United States pull this off?
This does not make any sense.
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'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo'--H.G. Wells
The Manhattan Project under the lead of Robert Oppenheimer employed more than 100,000 people at it's peak. You don't think the feat was attainable with that kind of man-power?
Sean Kelly said this in post #2 : The Manhattan Project under the lead of Robert Oppenheimer employed more than 100,000 people at it's peak. You don't think the feat was attainable with that kind of man-power?
That is amazing.... 100,000 at its peak. Why was this number only 40,000 at the beginning of the war? Seems kind of late.
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo'--H.G. Wells
12-29-2004 03:04 AM
