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BOMB Vocabulary
Term | Book Definition |
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Fat Man | A large, round, plutonium, implosion bomb similar to the one tested at Trinity |
Uranium | The largest atom in nature. A single ounce of uranium has about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms |
Radioactive | When an atoms nucleus is naturally unstable. Particles break away from the nucleus and shoot out at high speeds. |
Little Boy Hiroshima, Japan | Ten foot long and painted gray, it was like a small submarine. |
Theoretical Physicist | Explorers of the day using imagination and mind-bending math to dig deeper and deeper into the inner workings of atoms. Basically developed the atomic bomb. Ex: Oppenheimer. |
Monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the supply of something. |
Plutonium | Works faster than uranium. Used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and as an explosive in nuclear fission weapons. So strong that it would start a chain reaction before two lumps of plutonium came together. Worked too quickly to make a good bomb. |
Chain Reaction | When one atom splits, it bumps into other atoms causing them to split and then they split causing those to split and that continues. |
Saboteurs | People who conduct or participate in sabotage. The Norwegians. |
Fission | To split. |
Fussion | The joining of atoms. |
Allied Powers | United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union |
Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, and Italy |
Agent Cultivation | Cultivation means gathering information on a potential source, feeling him out to see if he might be convinced to cooperate. It was a difficult task. |
Implosion | Blast pieces of uranium together with explosives. A bursting inward. |