was the prospect of Nazi Germany to threaten the world with atomic bombs which stimulated the development of the Manhattan Project responsible for the construction of the first atomic devices. Leo In October 1939 Slizard, Hungarian physicist, Franklin Roosevelt warned about the dangers of 'the bomb' in the hands of the Nazis, in a letter signed by, among others, Albert Einstein, in response to General Leslie Groves was appointed head of Manhattan Project. Groves appointed research director Robert Oppenheimer, who in turn recruited some of the world's leading scientists who met in Los Alamos, in the desert of New Mexico. Groves once referred to as "the largest collection of crackpots ever seen."
The task of the scientists was to design a complete pump in parallel to process uranium and plutonium production, ride wit so quickly that could be launched from an airplane: the pump must operate effectively at the right time. To investigate the behavior of uranium 235 and plutonium-239, its chemistry and metallurgy also developed a trigger for a trigger of neutrons, and investigated the thermodynamics of a nuclear explosion.
Finally the mechanism of the Little Boy was a subcritical mass of U-235 that shoots another subcritical mass. The impact would be a supercritical mass to generate a chain reaction accelerated and uncontrollable, ie explode.
In the spring of 1944 the U.S. government decided to explode the first atomic bomb in the range of Alamogordo, New Mexico, an arid, plain that facilitated the observations and the nearest town was 43 kilometers. Was initially thought to throw it directly to Germany, but the fear that persuaded them to fail to do so.
Shortly before making the decision to take the test, Groves was informed that the Germans could not build the atomic bomb, but he hid the Manhattan Project scientists.
After several delays the trial was set for July 4, 1945, but prior to make an explosion of 100 tons of explosives was found that the infrastructure was not adequately prepared to ensure the safety of observers.
On May 9, 1945 the Nazis surrendered and Soviet troops drove the Japanese troops in Manchuria, China, there was no need for the pump.
Finally, despite the capitulation of Nazi the test was made on 16 July 1945. The blast produced a flash as bright as 20 soles, which was seen in three neighboring states, the observers at a distance of 25 km., Felt a heat wave similar to what is seen next to a fireplace. A fireball of 1.5 km., In diameter was projected into the sky, in a few seconds the first mushroom cloud of the story reached a height of 12.000 meters. At that time Openheimer (later confessed) recalled the verses "I am become death, destroyer of worlds."
Three weeks after the first atomic bomb of 4,500 kg., Weight, power and 20,000 tons were dropped on Hiroshima and three days later, the Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki with equal power, reaping the lives of 140,000 people.
U.S. media presents us with the decision to carry out the bombing was made to save the lives of American soldiers, justifying save the lives of their soldiers in exchange for Japanese civilian life, a moral military honor not think that justifies, but Americans have repeatedly used throughout this century.
Little Boy With the Cold War begins happily ends with the destruction of a wall, without loss of life and to cry anymore ...
NUCLEAR
There are currently deployed around the world more than 30,000 nuclear weapons and although the imminence of a "nuclear war has diminished considerably since the end of the" guerrra cold "and the" dismantling "of the communist world, the chances of accidents nuclear persist. Also new threats have emerged, including the creation of nuclear weapons by terrorist groups and the possibility of conflicts among countries not aligned with the nuclear disarmament treaty. It seems that the health consequences of using nuclear weapons is no longer a concern, but the organization of the conference in New York to review the nuclear non-proliferation treaty is the last attempt to organize a world free of nuclear threat.
military objectives are to be achieved with nuclear weapons stocks are near their jobs as undoubtedly impact on civil society and has been on the experience of civilians which has become largely information on the effects of nuclear energy in health. These effects depend on the power of the weapon, the height reached by the explosion, the distance to the "zero point" and thus, the lethal area of \u200b\u200ba weapon is defined as: "the area within which equals the number of survivors that of those killed by explosion outside it. " Today it assume that a single nuclear explosion in a medium sized city health aid exceed the capacity of the city in a developed country, and that an attack with multiple weapons would far exceed the effort of the whole country.
Apart from the risk of "military origin" has been proven that the collapse of the USSR has created an illicit trade in radioactive material, especially plutonium consequences on people (or countries) involved are still difficult to assess. At the same time, there is a risk to health personnel working in the development of nuclear weapons and people living near nuclear research centers. Are well known and the consequences health disasters like the Chernobyl nuclear or
Mayak in the USSR. The incidence of leukemia, thyroid cancers and genetic abnormalities in offspring of direct victims of such disasters. It is known that the toxicity of plutonium, the basic component of modern nuclear weapons due to its radiological effects, and thus ingestion, inhalation "irradiated" lung and gastrointestinal mucosa causing irreversible damage.
sometimes convergent evolution can be distinguished from the parallel. In both cases, the same character evolves independently along two lines. In the evolution parallel, the ancestral state of the two species was the same, in the convergent was different (see illustration). The parallel development, the two species can evolve independently to reach a new common state. Rarely can differentiate the parallel evolution of convergent real cases, because the dispute is about ancestral states of characters, which are usually unknown. However, the South American butterfly mimicry of passion flower is probably a result of parallel evolution, there are two species of butterflies that exhibit the same arrangement of colors, both of which are poisonous to birds and share the color of so that one looks to the other. The arrangement of the colors varies by region, but in each, the two species look alike. The advantage of mimicry requires the two species at each site followed a parallel evolution. Divergent Evolution