Radioactivity

Radioactivity Did you know that the most awesome power known comes from the smallest piece of matter know to man' The hydrogen bomb, the largest explosion ever created. The equivalent of 10 hundred thousand tons of TNT (10 megatons). The hydrogen bomb is known for its great power and is dreaded by many for its great destruction. The Hydrogen bomb was first tested on November the 1, 1952. Just ten years after the nuclear age began, on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi made a chain reaction in a pile of uranium. Around the time of this test the first Nuclear power plant opened in England. Also the United States dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing over 100,000 people. Four months later another atomic bomb was dropped Nagasaki, Japan, killing an additional 40,000. As you have read, the Hydrogen bomb is something that spread terror and amazement through the entire human race. You will learn how this weapon of monstrous power was created and how it works. It is November 1, 1952. Over the loud speaker you hear “5, 4, 3,” There is a silence that everyone must have felt. The air was full of bomb, hydrogen, power, through, seems, fission, nuclear, just, great, fusion, atomic, wind, silence, over, nuclei, loud, light, first, energy, create, called, amount, world, weapon, test, terror, temperature, something, second, released, read, one, november, man, lower