Lisa0000
I have being trying to find out where the first atomic bomb was created that was dropped in hiroshima.... Was it created or developed in chicago...?
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MichaelPower
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The Manhattan Project
The two types of fission-bomb assembly methods investigated during the Manhattan Project. The gun-type assembly was not tested before it was detonated at Hiroshima. However, because of the novel and untried features of the implosion-bomb design, Fat Man, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other scientists at Los Alamos decided that it was necessary to test this one out before attempting to utilize one as a weapon against the enemy.
While U.S. and British attempts to investigate the feasibility of nuclear weapons began as early as 1939, practical development began in earnest in 1942 when these efforts were transferred to the authority of the U.S. Army and became the Manhattan Project. The weapons-development portion of this project was located at the Los Alamos Laboratory in northern New Mexico, though much other development and production work was carried out at the Clinton Engineer Works near Oak Ridge, Tennessee (the separation of uranium-235); the Hanford Engineer Works near Hanford, Washington (the production and separation of plutonium-239); in and near Chicago, Illinois (at the University of Chicago and at the Argonne National Laboratories); and at the University of California, Berkeley.
These research, development, and production efforts focused both on the development of the necessary fissile materials to power the nuclear chain reactions in the atomic bombs and on the design, testing, and manufacture of the bombs themselves.
The first bomb named 'The Gadget,' was tested at the Trinity site in New Mexico. It was a 'Fat Man' type plutonium implosion bomb. The first bomb operationally used was 'Little Boy' a Uranium-235 core dropped on Hiroshima. The second operation bomb, 'Fat Man,' was dropped on Nagasaki.
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Michael Power
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The two types of fission-bomb assembly methods investigated during the Manhattan Project. The gun-type assembly was not tested before it was detonated at Hiroshima. However, because of the novel and untried features of the implosion-bomb design, Fat Man, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other scientists at Los Alamos decided that it was necessary to test this one out before attempting to utilize one as a weapon against the enemy.
While U.S. and British attempts to investigate the feasibility of nuclear weapons began as early as 1939, practical development began in earnest in 1942 when these efforts were transferred to the authority of the U.S. Army and became the Manhattan Project. The weapons-development portion of this project was located at the Los Alamos Laboratory in northern New Mexico, though much other development and production work was carried out at the Clinton Engineer Works near Oak Ridge, Tennessee (the separation of uranium-235); the Hanford Engineer Works near Hanford, Washington (the production and separation of plutonium-239); in and near Chicago, Illinois (at the University of Chicago and at the Argonne National Laboratories); and at the University of California, Berkeley.
These research, development, and production efforts focused both on the development of the necessary fissile materials to power the nuclear chain reactions in the atomic bombs and on the design, testing, and manufacture of the bombs themselves.
The first bomb named 'The Gadget,' was tested at the Trinity site in New Mexico. It was a 'Fat Man' type plutonium implosion bomb. The first bomb operationally used was 'Little Boy' a Uranium-235 core dropped on Hiroshima. The second operation bomb, 'Fat Man,' was dropped on Nagasaki.
Use the keywords here in a Wikipedia search for more detail information.
Michael Power
Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Yoda55
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MichaelPower gives you some of the developmental high points, but to answer your question straight away: all the components were transported separately to Tinian Island (Western Pacific) and assembled there. This is where the aircraft and aircrews loaded and practiced with the weapon prior to getting orders to deliver it on target.
See (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_boy)
See (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_boy)