Los Alamos | The Bombs | Oppenheimer's Early Life | Manhattan Project | Post Manhattan Project |
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Fuller Lodge or Los Alamos School for Boys
What is the name of the building Oppenheimer and Groves took over for the construction of the atomic bombs?
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There were two bombs.
How many bombs were made?
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He was born in 1904, in New York City.
What year was Oppenheimer born and where?
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41 years old.
What age was Oppenheimer when he constructed the bombs?
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The Medal for Merit.
What is the first award Oppenheimer received in 1946?
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"Now I am Death, the destroyer of worlds."
What did Oppenheimer say when the bombs were tested at the Trinity Site?
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1945
What year were the bombs made?
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Jewish
What ethnicity is his family?
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"I feel like I have blood on my hands”
What did Oppenheimer say to the president after the bombs were used in Japan?
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Enrico Fermi Award of the Atomic Energy Commission.
What is the second award Oppenheimer received in 1963?
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He liked the landscape or it was remote.
What is one reason Oppenheimer picked New Mexico for the "secret city?"
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Fat man and Little Boy.
What are the names of the bombs?
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He spent 3 years.
What number of years did Oppenheimer spend in college at Harvard?
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He thought that it was incredibly dangerous and should be under international control.
What did Oppenheimer think of nuclear power and who should control them?
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In 2014 it was agreed that he was loyal and a brilliant scientist.
What was decided about Oppenheimer concerning his loyalty, and in what year?
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1944
What year were the bombs tested at the Trinity Site?
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Plutonium.
What is the element used in Fat Man?
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He taught at Berkeley in California.
What college did he teach at?
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1942
What year was Oppenheimer selected to assist in the Manhattan project?
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His became known as the father of the atomic bomb.
What did he come to be known as, as a nick-name?
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Colitis and Tuberculosis.
What are the two diseases Oppenheimer had to recover from in New Mexico?
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Uranium.
What is the element used in Little Boy?
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He studied chemistry, physics, mechanics, quantum physics, philosophy...
What are three topics Oppenheimer studied in colleges?
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It grew to 6,000 people
How many people did Los Alamos grow from 1943-1945, once the Laboratory was erected?
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He did in 1967 at age 62.
What year did Oppenheimer die, and what age?
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