Robert Openhaimmer named the world’s first atomic bomb test named “Trinity”.
A black date is recorded in the history of the world 6 August 1945. This is the same day when the US dropped a atomic bomb on Hiroshima city of Japan. In this US attack at 8:15 am, Hiroshima turned into a pile of debris in a few moments and one lakh 40 thousand people died. The remaining people kept on facing for a long time due to radiation. This attack made the world aware of the horrific results of nuclear weapons. The atomic bomb was described as the disgusting, which was built by Robert Openheimer. Let us know how Openheimer made a atomic bomb and why it was given a code name trinity.
This is a matter of the second world war. The United States launched a secret project to make atomic bombs. Openhaimer was appointed as a scientific director in this project. That year was 1942. The Openheimer Manhattan was associated with the project and began work on a plan to develop a atomic bomb.
The team of Openheimer and American scientists used nuclear fragmentation to make this bomb. In this process, a heavy atomic nucleus (nuclear nucleus) is divided into two nuclei. This leads to excessive energy.
So the bomb was named Trinity
Openheimer and his team used the elements like uranium-235 and plutonium-239 to make bombs at the laboratory located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was here that the full design of the atomic bomb was prepared and developed. It is a matter of the year 1944. Openhaimer had prepared for his first nuclear test. In the middle of the year, he first named the atomic bomb Trinity, which was to be tested.
Openhaimer was appointed director of the US Secret Nuclear Bomb Project. Photo: Getty Images
He named this in a poem of English poet John Donna inspired by Holi Sonnets. In this poem, Trinity means a God i.e. Trimurti. Openhaimer used the name to be a mysterious and powerful symbolic meaning. Later, Openhaimer himself revealed that he had chosen this name due to his girlfriend Jean Tattlock, as he had introduced Openhamemer to this poem in the 1930s.
Testing on 16 July 1945
The bomb was fully prepared and the name was also named. After this, the date when it was to be tested. It was scheduled to be tested in the desert of New Mexico on the morning of 16 July 1945. By then, the weight of Openhaimer, the project director of the scientific branch project by Manhattan Project, was quite a valley and he was only 52 kg. The 5 -foot 10 inch long openingheimer was quite nervous at that time and could not sleep all night.
Historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin have written a biography of Openhaimer. Its name is American Promthius. In this, he writes that on the night before the testing of the bomb, Openheimer slept only four hours. He kept smoking wild cigarettes in the worry of the next day’s test. In the morning he was present in the control bunker, from where the bomb was to be tested 10 km away.
On the morning of 16 July 1945, the atomic bomb was tested in the desert of New Mexico. Photo: Corbis Via Getty Images
160 km away was felt the blast shock
Both historians have written that when the bomb was about to be blasted, in the last minutes, a general of the US Army had a mood of Openememer closely. According to that general, as the time of the blast was approaching, the tension of Openheimer was increasing and it seemed as if he was breathing with great difficulty. Then the clock came, which the openingheimer was waiting. First there was a blast in the atomic bomb.
Its strength was 21 Kilotan TNT. It was the biggest blast till then by humans, which caused such a sharp shock, which was felt for a distance of 160 km. After the bomb blast, the dust of dust started moving towards the sky, the tension of Openheimer started decreasing. His airs increased, as if he had reached the seventh sky.
Hiroshima attacked Hiroshima with a nuclear bomb only after a month of testing
A atomic bomb was demolished for the destruction of Hiroshima only a month after this testing of America. However, Openhaimer’s friends had revealed that he was depressed after this test. He used to be lost all the time. Perhaps they knew what was going to happen. OpenHaimer’s friends even claimed that one day he had expressed concern about the future of the people of Japan. However, soon he left this situation and focused on the matter with the army as to how the situation would be fine to demolish the atomic bomb and eventually Japan faced a devastating attack.
Remember the verse of the Gita
It is a matter of the 1960s. Openhaimer had claimed in an interview that during the nuclear test, he remembered a verse of the Hindu Dharma Granth Gita. In the 32nd verse of the 11th chapter of the Gita, Sri Krishna says that I am an increased time to destroy the world.
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