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The father of the Atomic Bomb and the director of the Manhattan Project
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
Sheinkin uses this literary device in the prologue of the book.
Flash Forward
This word means to grant freedom to.
What is liberate?
These two countries were allies that shared information about the research and building of the bomb.
What are the United States and England?
This accidental physics discovery made the atomic bomb possible.
What is nuclear fission?
This famous scientist helped to convince Roosevelt to begin researching the bomb.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The Vemork Water Plant was located near this type of deep river valley.
What is a gorge?
Attending meetings for and having friends who were members of this political movement, caused Oppenheimer to be under suspicion.
What is Communism?
This German scientist discovered nuclear fission.
Who was Otto Hahn?
Which element is used in the fission process to create the nuclear bomb?
What is uranium?
The bombing of a harbor in this state brought the US into World War II.
What is Hawaii?
What were the Germans making in the Vemork plant in Norway?
Heavy water
What is a compound sentence?
This chemist gave industrial secrets to a Soviet spy out of a sense of gratitude.
Who is Harry Gold?
During his time helping Norwegian resistance fighters, Knut Haukelid could be called this vocabulary word for the damage he caused the Nazis.
What is saboteur?
This root word means heat or temperature.
What is therm?
This acronym helps you to remember the 7 coordinating conjunctions.
Narrative nonfiction has these three same story elements that are found in fiction.
What are plot, setting, and characters?
This person quickly figured out that fission could be used to build a destructive bomb.
Enrico Fermi achieved this first at the University of Chicago.
What is the first nuclear chain reaction?
What is vital?
This US general was put in charge of the Manhattan Project.
Who is Leslie Groves?
This remote town was selected as the research site because it was isolated and already had a school that could be converted.
What is Los Alamos, NM?
Knut Haukelid was taken off of the ill-fated first mission to destroy the Vemork plant because of this issue.
He had shot himself in the foot.
When they were being recruited to the Manhattan Project, scientists were told this.
What is nothing?