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Where was the site of the first atomic explosion?
The Trinity project was the code name of the nuclear test in 1945. It was created because of the Manhattan Project. It took place in the Jornada del Muerto desert.
What is secret project of the Manhattan project?
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the WWII project to build the first Nuclear Weapon, the Atomic Bomb.
What was the nuclear project called in World War 2?
The code name for the U.S. effort to develop nuclear weapons during WWII was "The Manhattan Project".
Meaning of Manhattan project?
Manhattan Project was the code name for the secret project to design and build a nuclear bomb.
What is the bomb?
Basically a nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.A nuclear bomb also known as an atomic bomb. This is a bomb where nuclear fission is the sole source of the energy for the explosion. This explosion occurs when uranium235 and/or plutonium239 is transformed from a subcritical mass to a supercritical mass very rapidly, when a few neutrons are then fired into that supercritical mass the chain reaction continues and cascades at an exponentially increasing rate until it results in a huge explosion. However such fission only bombs have a theoretical limit to their yield of under 1 megaton.If fusion is involved somewhere in the bomb, hydrogen nuclei (typically deuterium and tritium) fuse. By use of multiple fusion stages the yield of such bombs can be increased without theoretical limit.Some very high yield fusion bombs are enclosed in a shell of uranium238 which will not normally fission, however the very high energy fusion neutrons can cause it to fission. This one feature can provide as much as 90% of the bomb's total yield, but also increases fallout by a similar amount.
