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# The first person to develop the atomic bomb was:

### Question

The first person to develop the atomic bomb was:

### Options

A) Albert Einstein

B) Charles De Gaulle

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) T.S. Elliot

### Explanation:

We could point to Einstein, (who had no actual part in the development of “the bomb”), Albert Einstein showed us that matter and energy are inextricably linked, and that if one could translate matter to it’s energetic potential, you would get a very great deal of energy. He showed this with his famous equation $$E=mc^2$$

The Manhattan project, the project that resulted in the first practical nuclear weapons, was a group effort involving dozens of scientists, physicists, mathematicians, engineers, etc. It was headed by Robert Oppenheimer, under the overall direction of General Groves, who had been assigned the project.

The whole thing was such an involved team effort that it would be very hard to point to a single “inventor”. Also, the effort produced two distinctly-different weapons; the “gun type” “little boy” Uranium 235 weapon, and the “implosion” type weapon, “Fat Man”, which used plutonium. The plutonium implosion device became the standard for nuclear weapons of the future.

## Discussion (6)

• Daniel

According to UNILAG past question.. Otto Hahn made atom bomb

1. Please where did you get UNILAG past question? I really need one.

2. Wait these questions are not the past questions?

• We could point to Einstein, (who had no actual part in the development of “the bomb”), Albert Einstein showed us that matter and energy are inextricably linked, and that if one could translate matter to it’s energetic potential, you would get a very great deal of energy. He showed this with his famous equation $$E=mc^2$$